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Revisiting the Five-Minute Rule
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Anne & Lynn Wheeler
Jul 5, 2009, 12:05:27 PM7/5/09
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Revisiting the Five-Minute Rule
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/05/1416210/Revisiting-the-Five-Minute-Rule
The Five-Minute Rule 20 Years Later; Revisiting Gray and Putzolu's
famous rule in the age of Flash.
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/7/32091-the-five-minute-rule-20-years-later/fulltext
from above:
In 1987, Gray and Putzolu speculated 20 years into the future and
anticipated a "five-hour rule" for RAM and disks. For 1KB records,
prices and specifications typical in 2007 suggest 20,978 seconds, or
just under six hours. Their prediction was amazingly accurate.
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