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To: Rocky Reid who wrote (10239)	4/9/2000 1:44:00 PM
From: Bargain Hunter	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 60323

Another factor working against the adoption of a rotating media standard is that the media itself has to be a standard. Once the standard is introduced, the capacity is fixed. Every year or so there will be another new "standard" with better characteristics, just in time to persuade people that the old one is obsolete before it achieves significant market penetration. Contrast that with CF or MMC/SD where only the interface to the device is static. So long as the external interface was defined with sufficient foresight, the capacity can continue to improve every year. It is also possible to introduce new functionality by designing new interfaces with backward compatibility, e.g. SD vs. MMC.