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I can't wait. Once I can reasonably replace everything with SSDs I will. And then I'll never buy spinning rust again. I dreamed of this eventuality in the 19
by MCRed 11y ago
I can't wait. Once I can reasonably replace everything with SSDs I will.
And then I'll never buy spinning rust again.
I dreamed of this eventuality in the 1990s. I didn't know what technology would be used. I never expected EEPROMs would evolve in this direction (now marketed as "FLASH") as they were so fickle and unreliable in those days.
This will allow lots of interesting things.
Imagine a laptop that's got its main RAM backed on a dedicated bit of high speed flash... so it instantly powers off completely and instantly powers back on completely.
Soon, we'll have the massive increase in storage capacity much like we've had a massive increase in compute capacity to the point where you no longer really think about it-- all computers are "fast".