Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:24:10 +0100 From: Ragnar Lonn <ragnar@gatorhole.se> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Alexandre DELAY <alexandre.delay@free.fr>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HDD Message-ID: <43A805FA.4020508@gatorhole.se> In-Reply-To: <86ek476hfg.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <43A13E1B.9060106@gatorhole.se> <MAEBLPAGHGPMOKCBICBNCECOCJAA.alexandre.delay@free.fr> <20051215195746.GA39959@rancor.immure.com> <86irtj6hxn.fsf@xps.des.no> <20051220130653.GA16559@rancor.immure.com> <86ek476hfg.fsf@xps.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> writes: > > >>On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:01:40PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: >> >> >>>log2(94) < 7 >>> >>> >>Hmm, not sure what you're getting at...? >> >> > >Elementary arithmetics. If flash prices are currently 94 times higher >than hdd prices and they halve every year, it will take them less than >seven years to reach today's hdd prices. > > And you feel confident that HDD prices will stay fixed the next 7 years then? Elementary or advanced arithmetics, it doesn't matter if you don't think first ;) I don't know the exact rate that HDD prices drop but I'd suspect it's close to 50% per year. /Ragnar
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