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From: Ragnar Lonn <ragnar@gatorhole.se>
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Ragnar Lonn wrote:

> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>
>> 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 ;)


Sorry, didn't see the "today" in your sentence above... But it's still a 
bit of a
strange comment. 7 years from now, I don't think people will be very 
interested
to pay as much for a flash disk as they did for an HDD *today*.

Regards,

  /Ragnar