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Apr 15th, 2006, 06:10 PM
Yeah, my bad I was misinformed. I took a look at an article from January 2006 in the IEEE Spectrum and found this,
"Now consider the alternative: a garden-variety 60-GB hard-disk drive, which costs around $150. Even allowing that prices for flash memory will continue to drop about 35 percent annually, it will be seven years at least before you'll be able to buy 60 GB of raw NAND flash for a similar price. Next year, 200-GB hard-disk drives are expected to be available for less than $200. Hard-drive makers are switching over to the new perpendicular recording technology, which promises to cram at least 200 billion bits into each square inch, twice the density possible with current longitudinal writing technology. That promises to keep hard drives way ahead of flash drives in terms of density and price for years to come."
I particularly like the idea of solid state devices because they hold the potential to last much longer than devices with moving parts... but it seems they won't be viable in the foreseable future.
So, my bad!
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