Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:06:53 -0600 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> Cc: Ragnar Lonn <ragnar@gatorhole.se>, Alexandre DELAY <alexandre.delay@free.fr>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HDD Message-ID: <20051220130653.GA16559@rancor.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <86irtj6hxn.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <43A13E1B.9060106@gatorhole.se> <MAEBLPAGHGPMOKCBICBNCECOCJAA.alexandre.delay@free.fr> <20051215195746.GA39959@rancor.immure.com> <86irtj6hxn.fsf@xps.des.no>
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On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:01:40PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> writes: > > Well, there's the rub. It will take a lot of price halvings for flash > > drives to even get close. > > > > If you take ZipZoomFly as a typical online retailer, they are selling > > 400GB IDE drives for $251 and 4GB flash drives for $236. That works > > out to $0.63/GB for the hard disk and $59/GB for the flash drive. This > > represents a ratio of almost 94:1. > > log2(94) < 7 Hmm, not sure what you're getting at...? -- Bob Willcox Men freely believe that what they wish to desire. bob@immure.com -- Julius Caesar Austin, TX
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