Chip vs platter

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Throwing a little fuel on the fire...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?t [...] d=1093&e=2
&u=/pcworld/20050523/tc_pcworld/120950

If you don't want to cut and paste: http://tinyurl.com/7j7qd

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On 05/23/2005 12:50 PM, Howard pondered briefly and then wrote:

> Throwing a little fuel on the fire...
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?t [...] d=1093&e=2
> &u=/pcworld/20050523/tc_pcworld/120950
>
> If you don't want to cut and paste: http://tinyurl.com/7j7qd
>

Or, you could paste the link in it's proper unbroken form:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?t [...] rld/120950

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Howard (stile99@email.com) wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:
> > Or, you could paste the link in it's proper unbroken form:
> > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?t [...] orld/20050
> > 523/tc_pcworld/120950
>
> No, I think I'll be keeping wrapping on. Thank you.

My newsreader wraps for posting, but I can tell it not to for selected
lines (like when I post URLs). Since this feature is part of GNKSA that
XNews (which you use) strives to follow, I would think you could do it,
too.

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Howard wrote:

> Throwing a little fuel on the fire...
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?t [...] d=1093&e=2
> &u=/pcworld/20050523/tc_pcworld/120950
>
> If you don't want to cut and paste: http://tinyurl.com/7j7qd
>
Here's a Pic:
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardne [...] 82648.html

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> Yeah, then there's the last paragraph: "The performance stays
> below that of M-Systems' drives (up to 320 GByte per second), but
> pricing should also come in significantly lower. Samsung did not
> comment on the cost of a SSD drive, but considering current Flash
> pricing we would expect the 8 GByte drive to start be positioned
> in $500-600 price bracket and the 16 GByte unit to ring in at
> about $1200."
>

There's no question that Solid state drives are quite expensive right
now, and only feasible in limited applications. But solid state memory
prices are dropping 2-3 times faster than conventional drive prices, so
the parity point won't take too long to reach, maybe 2-3 years. And
since solid state drives offer advantages over conventional drives in
power consumption and throughput, they ought to become attractive before
prices reach parity.

However, I'd imagine that *large* storage drives (like 1 terabyte and
up) will likely still be only cost effective with conventional drives
for a good bit longer.

Randy S.