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To: cfimx who wrote (62602)1/12/2005 3:13:18 PM
From: QwikSand  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
the point is the hd adds a few bucks to the cost
so why not?

No reason why not. It's just a matter of how you use them.

Peecees position the hard drive at the indispensable heart of the computer, in effect as important as the CPU. But exalted hard drives are huge security holes from a long list of standpoints.

In this day and age, a hard drive should be present, but should only be a "data capacitor", i.e., a caching device that keeps performance up during transitory high-demand periods. (Network outages for whatever reason are unacceptable. Companies that push NC's and also allow network outages to happen can't succeed.) HD's should be neither a permanent repository of precious data nor a single point of failure for the ability to work. Too risky.

Charles' voice-mail vs. answering machines metaphor is apt. When I think of a local answering machine on my kitchen counter I don't think "love that local storage", I think "what do I do when this piece of crap breaks down, I hate the parking lot at Fry's".

As I said, for the people who are afraid that the telephone company or the government would listen to their messages if they used centralized voice mail (who I think overlap with people who are comfortable driving a car on the freeway but afraid to fly in a commercial airliner), it's the service vendor's responsibility to create--and effectively market--low-cost security and reliability.

--QS
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