Talk:Mass storage

message: Both Mass Storage and Mass storage now exist.  Sorry about that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.188.98.5 (talk) 05:30, 22 April 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Resolved. § Music Sorter § (talk) 22:55, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: "Mass Storage" and "Mass storage"

message: The differences between fixed disk and removable disk, hard/rigid disk and floppy disk should be brought out. Now they are not. There are merely a few notes. I changed redir of fixed disk to hard disk but it would need a page of its own, for example. Not it almost reflects current usage as most fixed disks are hard disks. Not all hard disks are fixed disks, though.
There should probably be a clear tree and explanation on the terms by physical stature and function. Perhaps here. Then you could add the definitions and jumps to the different related articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.216.199.14 (talk) 00:12, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Why is it so important if a device is removable or not? This is trivial. Hard-or-floppy is orthogonal to removable-or-fixed. In fact, almost all contemporary hard drives are removable in their nature (except PATA). --Kubanczyk 18:51, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fixed and removable disks

message: "Desktop operating systems such as Windows are now so closely tied to the performance characteristics of magnetic disks that it is difficult to deploy them on other media like flash memory without running into space constraints, suffering serious performance problems or breaking applications." -- Um, AFAIK, Puppy Linux and its associated applications runs great from a pen drive. -- Writtenonsand (talk) 13:11, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs a disk drive? [[Puppy Linux]] doesn't 

message: Should there be a discussion of the inroads made by nonrotationg stoage into the CD and DVD R/W marketplace? Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 20:28, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think CD and DVD R/W have ever been considered Mass storage nor can I find anything along this line in the article so I wouldn't add such material here.  Note there have been a couple of Blue Ray DVD Changer products proposed that would rise to the level of Mass storage and could be mentioned the article if they became real. Tom94022 (talk) 19:20, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, CD and DVD media are a lot larger than some things that were written up as mass storage.  Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 20:04, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really in contemporaneous terms.  CD-RW came to market circa 1997 at about 650 MB at which time HDDs were for the most part > 1 GB (source: 1997 Disk/Trend).  Similar issue with DVDs.  It seems their capacities were never higher than the then contemporaneous other secondary storage (HDDs for the most part) for anyone to label them mass storage.  The whole concept of "mass storage"  is greatly affected by the time and context of usage.  Tom94022 (talk) 22:35, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comparison of non-rotating removable storage versus CDRW and DVDRW? 

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message: Term is obliviously vague, do we need dedicated Wikipedia page for this term? This article seems very trivial to me. Ushkin N (talk) 00:49, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: — The term has been used for decades and that is well documented (I’ll add a citation). It may feel dated, but it is still in use. The SNIA dictionary (which you cite) is not an encyclopedia of storage-related technologies; it is a glossary of technologies that are currently pertinent to the on-going activities of the SNIA. For example, quite logically, it does not have an entry for “floppy disc”. That doesn’t diminish the merits of Wikipedia’s article on that topic, nor does it indicate that floppy discs were not storage devices. — Wlgrin 04:13, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: It's well documented with inconsistent meanings. On PC-based platforms it typically means storage larger than the DRAM, but on other platforms it has the original meaning, storage larger than that provided by disk drives. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 19:37, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it is well documented in the article and as Chatul stated the definition has been inconsistent over time.  To paraphrase Chatul I would state that on small systems such as PC's "mass storage" typically has meant storage larger than primary memory  (the FDD was early on described as "mass storage") and that on large systems such as mainframes and servers "mass storage" has typically meant on-line storage larger than secondary storage.  I'm not sure if it has any meaning today - is Cloud Storage mass storage?  The problem will be finding reliable sources for such definitions.  Maybe we just have to state the facts historically Tom94022 (talk) 07:09, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not used by [[SNIA Dictionary]] 

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message: A recent citation 
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 |title=Mass Storage Benefits Depend on User Requirements
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of an article in ComputerWorld
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:Adding the missing trailing brackets as I did above seems to fix the rendering problem but that is moot since the ref was been removed in a subsequent edit.  Tom94022 (talk) 07:51, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mystery malformed citation