7 Mar
2011
7 Mar
'11
9:03 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: Who will be the last HD maker down the road?
On 7 Mar 2011 at 22:31, Teo Zenios wrote:
Interesting paper. So some kid 50 years from now can hack into the worlds
digital library and send a reformat command to the raid and after 3 minutes
of just sitting idle nothing will be recoverable.
I wonder if WD will be the last company standing
making spinning disks
before SSD takes over all markets.
We may be using flash both for external storage and internal storage.
There are some interesting developments that promise flash with the
speed of DRAM with a similar economy of scale.
Having spent a hunk of my professional life in computer forensics, I
found the following paper which posits that conventional data
recovery on SSDs isn't going to work very well:
http://www.jdfsl.org/subscriptions/JDFSL-V5N3-Bell.pdf
--Chuck