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some ideas (hybrid maganetic/flash drives, built in usb or firewire, etc)
Combine flash and magnetic, and use the combination to get the best of both speed and storage size. Add built in data integrity auto-striping and repairing, auto-defragmentation, built in drive utilities, built in usb port, and optional drive level data encryption or compression.

We have all these things now, in separate form.
Why not focus on improving all aspects of drive usage, and make them more reliable?


Large Primary Cache
Large Flash Data Partition/Cache for holding more frequently accessed data, os bits, and buffering data read writes.
Large magnetic storage area for less frequently accessed data.
All data is striped and protected by the drive, if possible defragmentation happens intelligently in the background.

Each drive should provide its own bios like interface containing utilities to upgrade firmware, diagnose, repair, partition, format, securely erase, the drive without any third party software.

If i was a drive manufacturer I'd also consider adding a usb port/controller directly to the drive so a usb cable is all you need to get your data off or to prep a drive. or firewire, etc.
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Let me know when the 100 Gig Flash drive hits the market  Intellihence | 08/23/06
Not true  Roger Ramjet | 08/23/06
I know!!! I know!!!  James T. Kirk | 08/23/06
I'd rather have...  Bill_Jackson | 08/23/06
quit talking about Linux!  Linux Geek | 08/23/06
that was a reply to the first message  Linux Geek | 08/23/06
The speed vs. size trade off  Roger Ramjet | 08/23/06
while the speed never changes. ???  mrlinux | 08/23/06
Regular hard drives  Roger Ramjet | 08/24/06
I agree totally  zmud | 08/24/06
speed is the issue  rwahrens1952 | 08/23/06
Well... yes and no  3D0G | 08/24/06
Yep-per  Roger Ramjet | 08/24/06
In a way, capacity = speed  CobraA1 | 09/11/06
some ideas (hybrid maganetic/flash drives, built in usb or firewire, etc)  jjarman | 05/02/07
What size it the operating system?  Outlyer | 08/23/06
Answer FLASH!  Reverend MacFellow | 08/23/06
We have that now  osreinstall | 08/23/06
Al-RIGHT!  999ad@... | 08/23/06
Impressive!  Reverend MacFellow | 08/24/06
They are.  osreinstall | 08/24/06
flash has limited write-cycles  joemartn | 08/23/06
Perhaps you should have a look at  999ad@... | 08/23/06
Flash limitations can be used as pros  Mr_Dave | 08/24/06
Instead of increasing capacity ...  rwb1912@... | 08/23/06
Heat-assisted magnetic recording?  Mr. Roboto | 08/23/06
Sony did it first.  DJFlash | 08/23/06
what is old becomes new again  Amberhawk | 08/24/06
You're thinking of the MO drives  3D0G | 08/24/06
Ah, MagOps. I knew I recognised the principle...  Mr. Roboto | 08/24/06
Storage solution for the future  Boot_Agnostic | 08/25/06
high density punch cards  jjarman | 05/02/07
they are on the way out.....  tfry@... | 01/16/07
somewhere on CNET  thedudeistoocool@... | 01/16/07
1 bit quantum storage  jjarman | 05/02/07

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