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To: GraceZ who wrote (21003)	4/17/2000 10:31:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

What I mean is that the Net server provides the backup storage for your entire disk. @Home has a partner who supplies this service now. The necessity of local storage comes from an argument that goes like this. You need enough storage space to back your local storage. It's too slow and bandwidth consumptive to regularly back. Maybe transfer speeds will rise in coming years due to new technologies like optics. At the same time as the optic systems are developed we develop ever larger storage capacity consumptive habits. If a ratio is formed between the change in storage wanted as a function of time and the change in transfer speed as a function of time, does this ratio rise? If so, we are destined to become more local storage intensive. Probably there is a maximum where the ratio is constant. SI is low priority data. If it had any significance, you would store it locally.