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Cc: Alexandre DELAY <alexandre.delay@free.fr>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: HDD
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

>Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> writes:
>  
>
>>On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:01:40PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>log2(94) < 7
>>>      
>>>
>>Hmm, not sure what you're getting at...?
>>    
>>
>
>Elementary arithmetics.  If flash prices are currently 94 times higher
>than hdd prices and they halve every year, it will take them less than
>seven years to reach today's hdd prices.
>  
>

And you feel confident that HDD prices will stay fixed the next 7 years 
then?
Elementary or advanced arithmetics, it doesn't matter if you don't think 
first ;)

I don't know the exact rate that HDD prices drop but I'd suspect it's 
close to 50%
per year.

  /Ragnar