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Date:      Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:21:44 +0100
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Ragnar Lonn <ragnar@gatorhole.se>
Cc:        Alexandre DELAY <alexandre.delay@free.fr>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HDD
Message-ID:  <861x076e87.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <43A80A5B.2060607@gatorhole.se> (Ragnar Lonn's message of "Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:42:51 %2B0100")
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> <43A80A5B.2060607@gatorhole.se>

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Ragnar Lonn <ragnar@gatorhole.se> 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
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no




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