[Novalug] Platter density hits 375GB/platter, 320GB/platter drops to 12.5 cents/GB ...

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

Terrabit: ashes to ashes, bits to dust

One other thing. The block size of a floppy array would be 1.5M in order 
to make "sector replacement" easy.

JIM

Clif Flynt wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 06:30:53PM +0000, jecottrell3 at comcast.net wrote:
>> Which leads us to the whimsical subject of Stripped/Mirrored/RAIDed
>> flash drives. I guess I'm never gonna get to build that Terabyte Floppy
>> Disk Array, but my Wall of Flash (32 32G flash drives) is actually
>> doable, if stupid.
> 
>   I dunno about terrabit, but back inna '80s Burroughs experimented
> with columns of floppy disks spinning at 3000+ rpm.  At that speed
> the floppy disk is effectively a rigid disk.
> 
>   However, a little jiggle (say a truck going by) would cause a small
> head crash, which would make a tiny ding on a metal disk.
> 
>   This makes a foosh-worth of black confetti to a floppy disk spinning
> at 3000 rpm.
> 
>   There are reasons this product never saw the market.
> 
>   Clif
> 
> 
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