From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 14:21:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 226DE16A41F for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:21:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9479043D53 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:21:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FF7920AB; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:21:45 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Learn: ham X-Spam-Score: -3.2/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on tim.des.no Received: from xps.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by tim.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26A2120AA; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:21:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 07AC633C3E; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:21:45 +0100 (CET) To: Ragnar Lonn References: <43A13E1B.9060106@gatorhole.se> <20051215195746.GA39959@rancor.immure.com> <86irtj6hxn.fsf@xps.des.no> <20051220130653.GA16559@rancor.immure.com> <86ek476hfg.fsf@xps.des.no> <43A805FA.4020508@gatorhole.se> <43A80A5B.2060607@gatorhole.se> From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:21:44 +0100 In-Reply-To: <43A80A5B.2060607@gatorhole.se> (Ragnar Lonn's message of "Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:42:51 +0100") Message-ID: <861x076e87.fsf@xps.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Alexandre DELAY , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HDD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:21:51 -0000 Ragnar Lonn writes: > 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*. Why not? People are happily paying as much today for a 4 GB flash chip as they did for a 4 GB hard disk seven or ten years ago. If they're affordable and provide clear advantages over the cheaper alternatives, people will buy them. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no