Is the storage medium non-volatile?

If so it would make more sense to get another one and mirror it.

Or get another one and use it as your backup medium.

If it is one of those semi-volatile electronic storage devises that loses
memory upon power down, Bruce DOES point out a problem here.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Toback [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 2:54 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: 2.3 TB on a credit card
>
>
> According to a story on TechWeb (at
> <http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990824S0011>), a new
> startup has
> been formed to license technology capable of creating
> credit-card sized
> storage modules capable of storing 2.3 TB. The article states that the
> device could be in production in less than two years and will
> cost around
> $50.
>
> One interesting aspect of the technology is the mismatch
> between device
> capacity and read/write speeds. According to the article, the peak
> retrieval speed is about 12MB/s. This means it would take about three
> days in order to fill the device to capacity -- or back it
> up, for that
> matter.
>
> In any case, even assuming considerable optimism on the part of the
> developer, it's pretty clear that our usual techniques for organizing
> data in file systems and data bases will be woefully
> inadequate to take
> advantage of the storage capacities that will be available in the next
> two or three years. It's time for something completely different.
>
> -- Bruce
>
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