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Re: OT: IBM - 400 GB hard drives by 2003
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Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 22 May 2001 17:22:07 EDT
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Mark writes:

> Many of you may already know this, but IBM has a process that can make 400
> GB hard drives for desktop systems, 200 GB for notebooks and a one-inch
> microdrive for PDAs that will have 6GB.  Who's going backup all of that
> data?  (Denys?)
>
>   http://www.ibm.com/news/2001/05/21.phtml

The only effective backup for such massive amounts of data is soon going to
become an identical -- but removable -- drive of equal capacity, mounted in
the same system, connected to the PC's high-speed backplane, possibly driven
under hardware controlled DMA (direct memory access) merely to keep total
transfer times down to something reasonable.

Wirt Atmar

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