Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx put forth on 7/24/2010 8:49 AM: > As a side consideration - moving from 512 to 4K moves the associated limit from > 2 TiB to 16 TiB. Given the current rate of device density increase, how much > time will that buy us, and what do we do then? The crystal ball tells me that SSD adoption will kick this date a little farther into the future given that SSD capacity lags mechanical by a large margin. In the not too distance future, PCs/laptops/netbooks will all transition to shipping with SSD as their sole/main internal storage device, with USB3/eSATA thumb drives of 1TB and above permanently replacing external USB/eSATA mechanical drives. Servers will probably transition at about the same time to shipping with solely SSD storage internally for boot/OS and maybe some other primary and a little secondary storage, with mechanical storage being optional, whether internal or external. Mechanical in the form of FC/iSCSI SAN and NAS arrays will still rule large data needs well after the aforementioned transitions above. -- Stan -- 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
