To: ShadowAce
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Believe it when I see it.
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
5 posted on
03/16/2009 1:39:19 PM PDT by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Still a few humps in the road. The ability to rewrite numerous times is limited. The cheaper MLC is slower than the less capacity SLC.
Vertical recording may surprise those waiting for this to happen soon, but hey, it’s a semiconductor company, what did you expect them to say.
The sky high SSD prices today will stop all but the most well heeled or needy servers from making the plunge.
6 posted on
03/16/2009 1:40:55 PM PDT by
Tarpon
(It's a common fact, one can't be liberal and rational at the same time.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"To make the hard drive spin faster (increase speed) or to add capacity doesn't really add a lot of incremental cost to the drive."Hmmm...according to Newegg.com, the WD 300GB Velociraptor is $230 and a there's a WD 1TB for $105. Looks like making it spin faster adds quite a bit to the cost. Either that or we're being ripped off.
8 posted on
03/16/2009 1:42:32 PM PDT by
Future Snake Eater
("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The changes so far are pretty remarkable. I remember IBM 340 meg microdrives costing several hundred. Now a multiple gig compact flash or smart media card is almost an impulse purchase.
11 posted on
03/16/2009 1:45:57 PM PDT by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Solid state HDD can’t come too soon for me. I already use CF and USB flash for O/S and program S/W. Data is baceked up to Flash. The only valid use for spinning media is swap.
13 posted on
03/16/2009 1:47:23 PM PDT by
Paladin2
(No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I don't see how they'll ever be as fast.
16 posted on
03/16/2009 1:56:15 PM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Only after disaster can we be resurrected." -- Tyler Durden)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Interesting subject - but why don't they provide Moore's Law semilog curves showing the geometric rate of decrease of cost per byte of storage of flash memory, and of magnetic disk memory? That would tell the tale . . .
35 posted on
03/17/2009 7:45:07 AM PDT by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The conceit of journalistic objectivity is profoundly subversive of democratic principle.)
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