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To: Stitch who wrote (10182)	2/4/1999 5:44:00 PM
From: John Stichnoth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11057

Does anyone have an estimate (their own or others') on when the drive market will turn up? Second question: What's out on the horizon that could replace (heaven forbid!) disk drives? CDRW? DRAM? Third thought: At some point the internet need for storage becomes an important factor. How soon will this be? On that last thought: Internet users are doubling quarterly (or some such numbers); growth in number of web sites continues at a similar pace; bandwidth available to average users is moving from analog to DSL and cable modem; this will lead web developers to increase content of their sites--multimedia will be practical where static with animated gifs and plugin midi files is now about as far as you can go. So, you get more sites and bigger sites, probably having to be distributed around the web to avoid switch and router bottlenecks. That is a true explosion in web storage requirements. But, is it significant in relation to the overall size of disk drives being produced today? The above submitted in all ignorance. Would appreciate discussion. js