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Date:      Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:42:51 +0100
From:      Ragnar Lonn <ragnar@gatorhole.se>
To:        Ragnar Lonn <ragnar@gatorhole.se>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Alexandre DELAY <alexandre.delay@free.fr>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HDD
Message-ID:  <43A80A5B.2060607@gatorhole.se>
In-Reply-To: <43A805FA.4020508@gatorhole.se>
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> <43A805FA.4020508@gatorhole.se>

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Ragnar Lonn wrote:

> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>
>> 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 ;)


Sorry, didn't see the "today" in your sentence above... But it's still a 
bit of a
strange comment. 7 years from now, I don't think people will be very 
interested
to pay as much for a flash disk as they did for an HDD *today*.

Regards,

  /Ragnar








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