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To: Proton who wrote (10278)	11/11/1997 10:06:00 AM
From: John Ritter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12298

50 megs might be handy for the next generation of webtvs, however the bandwidth issue has no generally agreed upon solution. The good news here is that DD won't be the problem.

To: Proton who wrote (10278)	11/11/1997 1:54:00 PM
From: Greg Jung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12298

2P, your expansionist view is backward-looking. i.e. why need more than 64k? -> 128k -> etc. in memory. Therefore why not now more than 3.2G. People don't feel the need to buy an unmanageably sized disk. But cost/size isn't the issue with these disks, it is access speed. With same RPM and GMR densities, you can pull off bits twice as fast as MR. Leading to the quoted 33MB/sec peak rate. OK fine, but I think the only time in the near future that a deskstar will pull 33MB/sec in the home is if you wife throws the unit out the window. To use that speed well, you need tasks occupying a lot of memory, closer to 512MB than 32. As well as a good disk buffering scheme, you also need a faster interface card etc. In short, this isn't your Wal-mart computer, by any means. I doubt the performance of standard applications can benefit much from speedier disks under DOS/NT formatting - they are already mouse- and keyboard limited. There are more throttles on the system so that, while interesting that IBM will have this product in production, it isn't destined to take over the world it is an evolutionary increment. Greg