On Saturday, June 06, 2009 at 0:54, STeve Andre' <[email protected]>wrote:
| 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. Depends. Disks are still 5x cheaper for the same amount of storage, and new technology seems to keep this trend going, as well as making them faster. Now if the diskmakers start to put some flash cache on their disks, and load it up with the boot stuff when they turn off, they would likely keep the workstation market. The server market will likely be mostly flash, not just for fast access, but to reduce power. tOM-- "It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle." ~ Ernest Hemingway tOM Trottier +1 613 860-6633 http://Information.Architecture.Abacurial.com Est-ce c'est necessaire d'imprimer ce courriel? / Do you really need to print this email? _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
