Jem pointed me at an interesting article about the future of hard disks.
Nothing very new, (Odlyzko discussed this trend a few years back) but the implications of disk space growing with a much bigger exponent than CPU, Networking or bus speed are rather subtle.
One interesting one is that audio & video compression become pointless over time, as they clog CPUs, whereas once raw transfer speed catches up, playback can happen without the CPU involved at all.
Monday, 14 July 2003
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