Posted on 08/11/2016 12:28:21 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I recently bought a 60 dollar thumb drive with 256GB.
I thought that was big...now comes a 32TB 2.5” drive...cool.
I remember 10mb hard drives... they were friggin boat-anchors!
It will not be long until I can get a thumb drive that will hold all my data... roughly 60TB
Today , a mouse driver is larger than the first HD’s on “IBM PCs”.
Holy carp, that $3,495 is for a refurbished one. The new one (see the fine print) is $4,495. Let’s see, computer or car?
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And you need to cough up another $1500 for the controller.
Is it a trickle voltage charged capacitor?? If so that still needs electrical power. How long will the data last?? A decade?? Longer??
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No trickle current needed. I have read that they need to be powered on at least once a year to refresh the cells. Maybe that’s changed.
Just this last spring, we shelled out a whopping $365 for a new Windows 10 (yeah, I know) laptop with 500GB hard drive, and a reasonably fast processor from ASUS. More than what we need with respect to surfin' the net, sending emails, and doing light document and spreadsheet work. That's what, $120 in 1980 dollars? A couple of good months of paper route money and tips. That same $4,495 today would be $13,700 today.
thanks for the correct link: i’m actually interested in reading the article! :)
This really is amazing. Samsung already makes the best SSDs in the biz as for as I’m concerned.
Too bad Adam Osbourne didn't live to see this day...
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