Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:33:00 -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: <20051220133300.GB16559@rancor.immure.com> 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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On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:12:35PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav 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. > > Shortly after that, McDonald's will start giving away terabyte flash > drives in happy meals... Perhaps so, but I will have to see it to believe it. Maybe over the years I've simply become too skeptical... -- Bob Willcox Men freely believe that what they wish to desire. bob@immure.com -- Julius Caesar Austin, TX
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