Off-topic: speaking of storage, did ya'll see the announcement of the new Palm
device this week? It has a built-in 160-something-MB flash drive, and
Bluetooth. That means, in theory, you can carry it around as a wireless HD.
I think Linksys and Toshiba already make wireless HD units, but either way it's
cool.
--- Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Dan Wright wrote:
>
> > On Monday 04 October 2004 14:58, John Foust wrote:
> > > The point of RAID is to save your data when a drive fails.
> > > If the logic board goes, or especially the motor fails,
> > > you're out of luck.
> >
> > True, but those failure modes are much less common the a media failure or
> head
> > crash.
> >
> > That brings me to another point, though -- if you had 2 seperate disks in
> the
> > same enclosure, with no environmental isolation between them, you'd likely
> > kill both disks with a head crash on either one. A head crash in a modern
> > high-speed drive tends to throw a lot of pulverized platter and head bits
> > around inside the disk, damaging the other platters that may not have been
> > involved in the actual crash. So I think you'd need to isolate the
> sections
> > from each other with some kind of airtight (or at least
> > really-small-bits-of-metal tight) seal; probably doable, but would take up
> > more room that you're pretty low on already.
> >
> > That sure would make an interesting drive :) If it could be pulled off
> cheap
> > enough, it would be well worth it, too.
>
> Sure it can be done. The technology is available now. The density would
> be adequate. I think there's a market for it. Now to just write a
> business plan and attract some investors...
>
> --
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
> Festival
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