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Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation
WDC 159.98-2.2%2:34 PM EST

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To: thecalculator who wrote (13405)8/6/2000 3:20:21 AM
From: thecalculator  Read Replies (1) of 60323
 
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Instead, let's get that data as fast as possible over to networked rotating media where we can conveniently access, search, sort, and archive it....media that will likely remain considerably cheaper for the foreseeable future.

Look at the simply staggering numbers in the following article:

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techweb.com

<<....The miles of fiber-optic cable will jump from 20 million to 20 billion worldwide in five years. And the capacity of each fiber will be boosted a thousandfold by dense WDM (DWDM)...

...During the same period, the cost of disk storage will fall, from 30 to 40 cents per megabyte now to 1 cent per megabyte.

...while handheld phones and computers are easily lost and replaced, the data that makes them valuable will remain permanently on the Web.
...
Rothnie said the measurement of personal data stored remotely from the user will skyrocket, from 100 gigabytes in the near future to 10,000
petabytes in five years.>>

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