On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Andrew Hume <and...@research.att.com> wrote: > thats not relevant here. > the issue you really mean is the interface, > and it will likely be safe that scsi/sata will still be around. > > i would be more doubtful that USB-2 would still be around, > but its still pretty likely. > firewire might be more doubtful, but the jury is still out on that.
I suggested the opposite in a private email exchange on this topic: .... As long as you keep media & drive together (always true with disks), you only have to worry about the interface and those seem to stick around pretty well. At the moment, I'm not sure if I would bet on SATA or USB. USB is more complicated, but I suspect that it is going to stick around the same way that serial ports did. Too many different uses for USB for it to go away anytime soon and no reason in most cases to ever upgrade the interface used for many of those devices. SATA is disk centered and when disk performance increases by a factor of 100, no one will keep using it. OTOH, I don't think anyone is EVER going to need a 100Gbit/sec interface to their keyboard, barcode scanner, etc. ... Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
