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16 Jul 2013 06:03:00 -0700 <![CDATA[Sorry, Dropbox: The Hard
Drive Is Here To Stay]]>  Dropbox CEO Drew Houston recently
declared, “We are replacing the hard drive.”  To illustrate his
point, he even invoked a Hollywood example: “Tom Cruise in
Minority Report is not carrying around a thumb drive or logging
into Gmail to pick up his attachment.” Maybe so, but the actor
has another famous film that describes Dropbox's end game even
better: Mission Impossible.   The Fluffy Cloud Has A Hard Metal
Center  Granted, classic hard drives—specifically hard-disk
drives—are an easy target. They're already on the way out,
making way for solid-state drives using flash-memory chips,
which have no spinning platters or other moving parts. These
storage components are faster and sexier, and they're getting
more affordable all the time. But Houston wasn't parsing
technologies—he was referring to the whole concept of local
storage, which most consumers lump together