Talk:Mass-storage device

Merge
I think the article should be merged into Computer data storage. I tagged the articles. Oicumayberight 02:23, 9 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Since the article is about mass-storage devices I think it should be part of the data storage device page.  Also, there really isn't much here to merge. A simple redirect would probably be sufficient. -- Austin Murphy 18:28, 10 October 2007 (UTC)


 * The article seems to be exclusively about computer data storage. However, since the article is not saying anything that isn't already better said in that article, a simple redirect of the term would probably suffice. And since the term could apply to data other than computing data, I agree, a redirect to data storage device is better. Oicumayberight 00:18, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

FWIW "mass storage" has a long history of being used in the context of very large volumes of data. There is an IEEE [Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee] which as sponsored numerous conferences on such systems and devices. Therefore, I suggest this article be redirected to Mass Storage and its current content be deleted as otherwise duplicative of several other storage articles Tom94022 17:40, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

removed merge tagging
... since there is no consensus even as to destination.
 * options above
 * 1) Mass-storage_device -- The current article
 * 2) Computer data storage -- my sense also of where this might go... but it's already overloaded, and there are embedded comments inline asking no more be added to this or that section.
 * 3) data storage device -- along the right lines... but too general an article for the term is one of computing.
 * 4)  Mass Storage
 * Upon further review, Computer data storage seems to be the sense of where the stub was going, but Mass storage also links to and differentiates between types (See the see also), so I'm changing this to a redirect to the mass storage page, and have already edited that to make Computer data storage more prominent. // Fra nkB  04:17, 8 December 2007 (UTC)