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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (58380)6/21/1998 9:14:00 PM
From: Steve Porter  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Jim,

When DVD becomes a standard for multi-media content, you will see a reason for the new big drives. The other thing you have to remember is that the increase in size is basically free from the improving technology in the sector, and thus cost per MB is dropping. There is a reason when you can't buy 1 gig drives anymore. A single side of single platter now holds around 2 Gigs.. that's 1 head and 1/2 a platter.

As I say, with DVD coming, vendors will be quite happy to ship 3 gigs of clip art or fonts or something stupid. I remember saying the same things when the 540's seemed to be everywhere... but then CDs became very popular and sure enough the 540s were tiny drives all of a sudden. These things just switch around. For a while demand for hard-drive space outstrips the availability, then the drives catch up and people say "why do I need something that big" and along comes some new distribution media which fills those once huge harddrives.

The content always cathes up to the available space. Encyclopedias on DVD will be great.. they can include full motion clips of some great moments in history, which can conveniently be installed to your harddrive so you don't have to keep the disc in the drive. Remember DVD holds 4.7gigs+.

Bottom line: Don't get caught in a "Bill Gates" situation (i.e. 640K ought to be enough for anyone).

Steve
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