1.2 petabyte drives on the way?

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: 1.2 petabyte drives on the way?
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:23:59 -0800
From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
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[Note:  This comment comes from reader Mike O'Dell.  DLH]

> From: Mike O'Dell <mo () ccr org>
> Date: February 19, 2006 8:03:17 AM PST
> To: dewayne () warpspeed com
> Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] 1.2 petabyte drives on the way?
>
> Jim Gray, famous database maven, in an interview with
> David Patterson (of UCBerkeley CS) has already lamented
> the fact that current "disk drives" are already much more
> like tape drives in their random access performance.
>
> i highly recommend reading this for a bit of perspective
>
> <http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=43>
>
> drives storing 10^15 bytes cannot help but exacerbate
> the huge mismatches in performance and behavior,
> with the likely result that the devices will not be
> as immediately usable as the fantastical extrapolation
> might imply.
>
> i'd love to see Jim Gray's comments on using such a device.
>
>       -mo

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