Linus Torvalds glæder sig til harddiskene hører fortiden til

Den finsk-amerikanske innovatør, medskaber og projekt manager af Linux kernelen, Linus Torvalds, er kendt for at komme med nogle kontroversielle angreb engang imellem. Denne gang har han indstillet sigtet mod de gammeldags mekaniske harddiske.

Om man finder hans seneste ytringer kontroversielle, er der nok ikke den store risiko for. Han understreger blot, at solid state lagring byder på en langt bedre brugeroplevelse, end de traditionelle mekaniske harddiske.

"Rotating storage is going the way of the dodo," siger Torvalds. "How do I hate thee, let me count the ways. The latencies of rotational storage are horrendous, and I personally refuse to use a machine that has those nasty platters of spinning rust in them. My primary requirement - since CPUs are fast enough - has been that the system be really really quiet, and that it has a good SSD in it. If our cat deigns to jump into my lap while I'm working, the loudest noise in the room should be the purring of the cat, not the computer."

Han medgiver dog, at der stadig er et marked for harddiske i servermiljøer, hvor en stor lagerplads med SSD'er ville gå hen og koste en formue.


Kilde: Wired.com