I'd like to see these used in PC's instead of hard drives... once the read speed on the drives speed up anyway. Wouldn't have to worry bout failing HD's anymore atleast... i guess no one know's the amount of stress these disk can take over a long time
no, not exactly, but if i didn't have to worry about the damn thing f...a...i...l...i...n...g like HD's are known to do... Shit if flash memory was fast and cheap enough i'd that instead of a traditional HD if i could. Less moving parts = less chance of failure. Maybe i should explained more clearly before the trolls rolled out.
"I'd like to see these used in PC's instead of hard drives... "
In reference to that statement.
Yes fewer moving parts does mean more stability but flash drives weren't in question here. Don't call me a troll because I posted a reply to a comment that doesn't make any sense.
A 500gb optical disc spinning at a fast enough speed to replace a hard drive would be completely unreliable. I don't know if you old enough to remember the old 80x cd-roms but the discs used to shatter at high speeds. Optical can only go so far as it is. It's not storing the data that is a problem its accessing it.
And about the damn thing failing... everything breaks flash drives break just less often than hard drives. I've had two flash drives get corrupted and they are unusable.
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I'd like to see these used in PC's instead of hard drives... once the read speed on the drives speed up anyway. Wouldn't have to worry bout failing HD's anymore atleast... i guess no one know's the amount of stress these disk can take over a long time
I'm not really sure if a response is needed here. You want an Optical disk as your Hard Drive?
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no, not exactly, but if i didn't have to worry about the damn thing f...a...i...l...i...n...g like HD's are known to do... Shit if flash memory was fast and cheap enough i'd that instead of a traditional HD if i could. Less moving parts = less chance of failure. Maybe i should explained more clearly before the trolls rolled out.
Feel free to explain what exactly you mean?
"I'd like to see these used in PC's instead of hard drives... "
In reference to that statement.
Yes fewer moving parts does mean more stability but flash drives weren't in question here. Don't call me a troll because I posted a reply to a comment that doesn't make any sense.
A 500gb optical disc spinning at a fast enough speed to replace a hard drive would be completely unreliable. I don't know if you old enough to remember the old 80x cd-roms but the discs used to shatter at high speeds. Optical can only go so far as it is. It's not storing the data that is a problem its accessing it.
And about the damn thing failing... everything breaks flash drives break just less often than hard drives. I've had two flash drives get corrupted and they are unusable.
Blu discs are a viable archive format period.