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To: Gottfried who wrote (8140)	3/24/2000 7:13:00 PM
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The answer, my friend, is blowing in the bandwidth. As cited, >>Now, he sites the next boom and place to position yourself is in STORAGE-width because there will be a shortage created by all the bandwidth.<< (from Robert's post: Message 13276716 ) Stitch said it, "I still say that bandwidth is the ultimate key." a few days ago in his post at Message 13230832 I have been living with a cable connection for six months now which gives me a fairly consistent 200 to 1600 kbits/second sustained data transfer. That means the recent Office 2000 SR1 update of 23 MBytes required 17 minutes to download at a slow time of the day up to a 6MByte file taking only 30 seconds in the wee hours. The fisrt couple of months I was revamping my ways and saving very little since even a substantial file can always be downloaded again with little effort. But that was then. Now my recently acquired 30 GB Maxtor seems small and CompUSA just called to say my prepaid order for a 40GB Maxtor will not be filled anytime soon. They are asking customers if they want a credit and to just forget the whole thing. I accepted because I am now waiting for the 60GB 7200rpm model to be announced. As Tom said, "Its got to come from "library oriented applications", transient visual things like movies, and songs, and pictures coming in through a pipe instead of a CD in the mail. Most of us still have very small pipes." Message 13231544 I spent a lot of time researching alternatives and now realized anew that it is hard to beat a personal disk drive of immense proportions with access to any file just a click and a few msec. away. The iDrive "infinite online storage space" has too many strings attached and their enthusiastic explanations of the sidecast variation of the old push technology just reminds me of why the word swarmy should be added to the dictionary. Also the net itself is slow. I also brought myself up-to-date on Internet2 and it all seems clear to me....I will really need some big drives soon and lots and lots of little ones distributed around the house. IMHO. Of course I am looking at those slim little NAS devices and wondering how my little 100Gbit Ethernet network would work with that. So much to learn and so little time. All I can say is, a really big pipe changes the way you look at things. I look at the clearance sales on the CD-collection of the last 110 years of National Geographic and think, "how quaint". On the other hand I wonder why a search of all the collections in the Library of Congress collections sometimes takes minutes and forget how amazing all this stuff is. I hope the wireless guys are thinking really big. : )