Talk:Mass storage
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Both Mass Storage and Mass storage now exist. Sorry about that.
See the articles re Case sensitivity and Case Sensitivity.
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.
[edit] This Article Is Way Off Point
Mass storage should be descriptive of very large storage of data as in the [http://www.msstc.org/ IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee] and not the local storage of personal computers or even servers. As such the mention of USB drives, floppy drives, etc in this article is way off the mark. The article needs to be completely rewritten. To that end I sent an email to the IEEE MSS Executive Committee members suggesting one of them rewrite this article. Tom94022 18:27, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Needs a disk drive? Puppy Linux doesn't
"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)
