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To: thecalculator who wrote (13405)	8/5/2000 12:40:26 PM
From: thecalculator	Respond to of 60323

CORRECTION on Repeat Sales A device like the ThumbDrive seems to me a great idea. A plausible scenario shaping up is one or two cards purchased per device at most, and remaining in the device most of the time.....which therefore seems to look like an almost permanently embedded memory solution to me. I did not even think about an 'I/O port attachable device' when I wrote this, but if the concept catches on, then an alternative plausible scenario shaping up for the future is, on average, much less than 1 removable flash memory device sold per device....and it being an I/O port attachable device (like the ThumbDrive), with most of the non-volatile cache memory remaining embedded on-board.

To: thecalculator who wrote (13405)	8/6/2000 3:20:21 AM
From: thecalculator	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

A Penny for Your Thoughts Instead, let's get that data as fast as possible over to networked rotating media where we can conveniently access, search, sort, and archive it....media that will likely remain considerably cheaper for the foreseeable future. Look at the simply staggering numbers in the following article: ---------------------------------- techweb.com <<....The miles of fiber-optic cable will jump from 20 million to 20 billion worldwide in five years. And the capacity of each fiber will be boosted a thousandfold by dense WDM (DWDM)... ...During the same period, the cost of disk storage will fall, from 30 to 40 cents per megabyte now to 1 cent per megabyte. ...while handheld phones and computers are easily lost and replaced, the data that makes them valuable will remain permanently on the Web. ... Rothnie said the measurement of personal data stored remotely from the user will skyrocket, from 100 gigabytes in the near future to 10,000 petabytes in five years.>> ----------------------------------