On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Ric Wheeler <ric@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Yeah. Except Dell will undoubtedly have them in desktops > > within 2 years, and tons of people (myself included) still use > > 32-bit (K)Ubuntu on our systems, simply for the better binary > > compatibility that it is perceived to give with things like > > browser plugins and stuff. > > I think that there are many embedded applications (lots of them linux based) > which have large amounts of storage behind low power, low cost 32 bit CPU's. > > Think of the home/small office NAS boxes that you can get from bestbuy or other > big box stores. Those devices today have 4 S-ATA drives (each of which can be > 1TB in size). I can attest to this. I hear from a reliable source (manufacturer) that 2TB 3.5" disks will be out no later than first half of 2009 (possibly even sooner, or at least 1.5TB). I currently use 1TB disks with a Geode LX based motherboard for SATA RAID and I plan on upgrading/consolidating to larger sizes once they become available in the market. 64-bit is not an option for me on this hardware. -Andrew -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
