Re: Pollution and HW trends, was:Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth

[Marco Fioretti <m fioretti inwind it>]

Ric,

Thanks for your comments on the necessity for small efficient disks.
A perfect explanation, with which I agree entirely (by the way, you
know yours are the same arguments discussed in the first edition of
ESR's "Building the perfect Unix box", don't you?).

Maybe 60/GB HDDs should be sold as "mass backup internal devices",
"auxiliary video processing buffers" "juke-box auxiliary storage".

Or at least techies should start openly talking about them in these
terms, to highlight the need for a change in marketing strategies.

We need this change: the problem with old disks is that they are
noisy, slow and more energy consuming.

		Marco

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