] TeraScale SneakerNet

hah!

this guy has some interesting points on disk storage.

i think we're getting to a point where user interaction with the disk will be minimal anyway, so i'm not sure access time will be so critical in the future, which underscores Gray's point. When, instead of going to your "Documents/Work/Reports/09/03/" folder and opening a file, you just tell your knowledge management agent that you want your september reports, the underlying data access model becomes less relevant. If it takes a bit longer for the agent to find it and put it RAM, so what. Just means the agent has to be smart about how *it* stores an manages data (probly with a large dbase), which is it's job anyway.

A Conversation with Jim Gray