On 7 Mar 2011 at 22:31, Teo Zenios wrote:
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