[Tarpon]

Well if you are going to store lots of stuff, then you want the latest 1.5 TB hard disks ... Still the cheapest way to store lots of stuff. They can be slowed down or even spun down for power savings at the expense of access times.

HD seem to go up in capacity and remain mostly constant in price. It's the way they are built that determines price, so cramming the most on a platter is the never ending foot race. I just bought a 500 GB SATA high speed drive for $60.

At the last juncture, people said conventional recording had pooped out. Then came vertical recording. We were doing vertical recording way back in the early 80s.

Is suppose if you want to archive store, the optical is what you may want, especially if you want it portable.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I worked on a SSD project with IBM and an Israeli company back in late 92, early 93. We had a client in NYC who was going to be the guinea pig for this.

The day we scheduled to go in and set up shop, the first WTC bombing happened.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Fry's has a weekend sale going with Seagates 1.5 Terabyte drive at 124.xx no rebate required.......

I would say that Seagate sees something coming also....

I could see having a system with the operating system on SSD and a spinning Large drive for user Data.......

Kind of like what we did on the mainframes years ago...

Anybody remeber the IBM DataCell??

The IBM 2321 Data Cell Drive