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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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