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From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>
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Subject: Re: HDD
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On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:01:40PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> 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

Hmm, not sure what you're getting at...?

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