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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brent D. Beal who wrote (34997)	11/10/1997 9:12:00 PM
From: D.J.Smyth	Respond to of 58324

IBM has stated they've been working on the GMR for over 1 1/2 years and have given information about it during that time, so i don't think the market considered their announcement as "news" as it was already priced. i didn't think it was news, but maybe several did. regardless of the size of the internal disk drive, there will always be a need to "own" data outside the context of the main drive. the only aspect holding back recording more data to the computer has been cost per megabyte. as the cost per megabyte drops, the more data that can be stored on the computer. so, as the size of the drive increases, so will the need for more information space. it's a catch 22, increase drive space, increase the need for storage. it was the same with the invention of the copier. when the copier was first introduced it was thought that the copier would reduce the amount of paperwork in the office. but, in fact, the opposite occurred, it created more paperwork as everything now had to be copied, and multiple copies at that. as the size of the drive increases, so will the amount of data for storage, i.e., your favorite TV programs, monitoring activity within your home with cameras, internet storage, etc. the only limiting factor now in storing more data to the computer is drive size. you may know that all those old movies, commercials, and other video and audio functions that occur 24 hours a day are stored i large warehouses on tape. tape is slow to read, slow to retreive. the IBM announcement is the first step in doing away with the need for all those large warehouses which now store all this information via tape. just a thought.