Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:01:40 +0100 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> Cc: Ragnar Lonn <ragnar@gatorhole.se>, Alexandre DELAY <alexandre.delay@free.fr>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HDD Message-ID: <86irtj6hxn.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20051215195746.GA39959@rancor.immure.com> (Bob Willcox's message of "Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:57:46 -0600") References: <43A13E1B.9060106@gatorhole.se> <MAEBLPAGHGPMOKCBICBNCECOCJAA.alexandre.delay@free.fr> <20051215195746.GA39959@rancor.immure.com>
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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 DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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