Faster than Moore's law

[Sunder]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Steve Schear wrote:

> >Just want to remind y'all that drive capacity has increased *faster*
> >than semiconductor throughput, which has an 18 month doubling time.
> 
> But access time has not nearly kept pace.  Which is why all manner of 
> database architectures have been created to make up for this shortcoming.

Which is still perfectly fine for data that you collect but search/access 
very rarely which I'd guess is the type of data we're talking about here.  
You collect the data, index it (or extract metadata from it in other ways) 
and you _almost_ never access it again.