On Friday 05 June 2009 21:34:17 Paul A. Pennington wrote: > RayBay said: > > Buy up those rotational drives from Seagate, Samsung, Western Digital, > > Fujitsu, Toshiba, and Hitachi now because the world of laptop hard drives > > has just changed drammatically... > > Based on the article, I would reach the opposite conclusion: put off > upgrading your hard drive for a year, as cheap solid-state drive will be > starting to arrive. > > But, an interesting article anyway. > > Paul Pennington > Augusta, Georgia
But 500G disks are less than $100, so getting one (or six) is reasonable if you are lusting for more space. The writing is on the wall however; SSDs will catch up and eventually kill hard disks. While I'm waiting for a 8T disk in my thinkpad (just as I lusted after 300G in my laptop in '99), we're going to have to live with disks a bit longer. Hmm. Maybe we should have a virtual betting pool over when, if ever, fatter disks come out. ;-) --STeve Andre' _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
