Some of us have had the misfortune of a hard-drive failure. It will happen to everyone eventually, and hopefully it will not be a painful death. I have been lucky as I have a aggressive backup plan in place others have been devastated by total loss of years of information. So it is not surprising that the hunt for technology to replace hard-drives are heating up. But I will bet that the ever popular hard-drive will be around for a very long time. [ZDNet]