Flash = The future?

[The Dread Pirate]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7057717.stm

Is the end Nigh?

 

[PhillyDee]

First released in 2009 . . . If they get it out then. And just imagine the cost. Youve seen the price of the current ones.

 

[IAmATeaf]

They may be an option but hard disks with spinning platters are going to here for some time to come, in fact I've just seen an announcement from Hitachi for a new tech that allows the read heads on to be shrunk even further making way for the release of 4tb disks in 2009.

 

[MumboJumbo]

4TB? Who needs more then 1tb. Infact i dont even need 250gb. Really you guys are obsessive downloaders!

And i see zefan got you with your sig

 

[alexakasloth]

Media centres could easily go past 1TB if you back up your dvd's

 

[ByteJuggler]

Also HD broadcasts/recording will drive the need for larger disks (e.g. for use in media centre's)

 

[MumboJumbo]

Media centres could easily go past 1TB if you back up your dvd's

YOu only need to back them up if they are pirated

 

[PhillyDee]

I would love all my DVD's stored on my pc so all i have to do is click on the film i want to watch on an HTPC. However, i have hundreds of DVD's, and dont know of a decent enough program to do this easily while keeping the FULL DVD quality as if i put the disk in.

 

[apatia77]

I would love all my DVD's stored on my pc so all i have to do is click on the film i want to watch on an HTPC. However, i have hundreds of DVD's, and dont know of a decent enough program to do this easily while keeping the FULL DVD quality as if i put the disk in.

doesnt dvdshirnk allow you to do that?
you can copy whole content of the dvd onto your hdd or you can compress it to fit a normal dvd,
btw it is a free program

 

[Participant]

Storage capacity requirements will ALWAYS be rising.

 

[tom_e]

YOu only need to back them up if they are pirated

where did you find that little nugget of information? I can think of plenty of reasons you would backup without any pirates being involved

 

[alexakasloth]

lol...

Why would you only need to back up pirated dvd's?

Some people would use large hard drives to back up legitmate dvds. Plus there are other uses for large hard drives, animation, video editing etc

 

[Talrinys]

YOu only need to back them up if they are pirated

So does this apply to PC games too? I have over 250gb over legal game images.

 

[The Running Man]

How? i dont think its legal to take an image of a game or indeed a film from disc...

i have a 250gb hdd at home on my PC and i would struggle to fill it quickly with 100~% legal content... unless i had real deep pockets!

 

[ChrisD.]

You're allowed images from your own games. I have mine all in ISO format on my storage drive. Makes installing games after a reformat so much quicker.

 

[The Dread Pirate]

4TB? Who needs more then 1tb. Infact i dont even need 250gb. Really you guys are obsessive downloaders!

And i see zefan got you with your sig

Yeah 1st gilly then zefan now badass I jus can't seem to please

anyhow back on topic

Some would feel the need to back up pirated DVD's unless you were the pirate in which case I'm sure thee olde image will be on thy PC! Yarg!

Also IMO it's the end of the classic HDD as the technology for in this particular area advances. In 5-6 years we'll all prolly be using flash.

 

[Energize]

If you look at the current performance of flash drives you can see that they are already surpassing hard drives, with much reduced loading times.

 

[Greenlizard0]

OT - the person who is holding that chip isn't in good health!!

 

[Naan_H]

OT - the person who is holding that chip isn't in good health!!

Mate you think thats a clubbed nail? (sorry OT)