You seem very skeptical, sir.
Let me respond to a couple of your points:
If you assume some advance in available bandwidth, why would you store a video presentation locally when you can access it at will on someone else's storage?
IF the bandwidth is there ...
IF the video is available on "someone else's storage"
Those are both big if's. I take it you never save HTML pages to your local disk? I do it all the time, it's easier to find them, and I'm guaranteed of having them.
Why the disk drive?
It's all about SPEED, baby, SPEED!!!!!
I don't use any removable media whatsoever. I have a zip drive and a jaz drive and a tape drive and a CD burner and all that, which I use as LITTLE AS POSSIBLE! <g> Nothing comes close to UDMA/33, and now you can buy 18 gig HDDs for peanuts! You can buy a 4.3 gig disk for less than the price of a Zip drive!
I threw my tape drive and tapes away. Now I back up to HDD! I can back up 8 gigs in an hour! Granted, this process has to get less technically challenging for widespread adoption. I was REALLY looking forward to Compaq's Device Bay standard, which would have let you pop HDDs in and out of your machine like Nintendo cartridges. But Device bay seems to have disappeared into thin air, poof! Ack!!!
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Stitch, another reason I bailed on FDD is they are so SLOW, it's unbearable torture to deal with them. Even SCSI Zip at 10 megs per minute or whatever is awful. Even 10mb ethernet is getting on my nerves these days. Time to upgrade to 100mb! |
