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Cc: Ragnar Lonn <ragnar@gatorhole.se>,
	Alexandre DELAY <alexandre.delay@free.fr>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: HDD
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Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> writes:
> Well, there's the rub. It will take a lot of price halvings for flash
> drives to even get close.
>
> If you take ZipZoomFly as a typical online retailer, they are selling
> 400GB IDE drives for $251 and 4GB flash drives for $236. That works
> out to $0.63/GB for the hard disk and $59/GB for the flash drive. This
> represents a ratio of almost 94:1.

log2(94) < 7

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