james knott gjaidadguarogerscom jerry feldman wrote mon 18 feb 2008 103707 0500 greg freemyer wrote see httpphysorgcomnews109253804html talks terabit solid state memory sticks 100000 year retention times trouble think take 10 years go lab production still interesting see still coming entirely new technologies drive densities ever higher back lived san antonio mid1970s great deal excitement industry regarding solid state memories could replace hard drives primary hope time bubble memory past 30 years hard drive manufacturers able improve reliability reduce size increase storage capacity think might see solid state start replace spinning magnetic media within next decade kind holy grail memory sticks essentially replaced floppy disks even cds cases today far hard drive vendors able keep price per byte reasonable many years ago technician supporting minicomputers evaluated solid state drive ampex iirc consisted standard semiconductor memory built battery backup back days could even buy s100 bus battery boards keep cmos memory computer use openofficeorg thu 07 aug 2008 011918 0500 opensuse defragging possible necessary