Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:47:48 +0100 From: Ragnar Lonn <ragnar@gatorhole.se> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Alexandre DELAY <alexandre.delay@free.fr>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HDD Message-ID: <43A81994.9030006@gatorhole.se> In-Reply-To: <861x076e87.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <43A13E1B.9060106@gatorhole.se> <MAEBLPAGHGPMOKCBICBNCECOCJAA.alexandre.delay@free.fr> <20051215195746.GA39959@rancor.immure.com> <86irtj6hxn.fsf@xps.des.no> <20051220130653.GA16559@rancor.immure.com> <86ek476hfg.fsf@xps.des.no> <43A805FA.4020508@gatorhole.se> <43A80A5B.2060607@gatorhole.se> <861x076e87.fsf@xps.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >Ragnar Lonn <ragnar@gatorhole.se> writes: > > >>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*. >> >> > >Why not? People are happily paying as much today for a 4 GB flash >chip as they did for a 4 GB hard disk seven or ten years ago. If >they're affordable and provide clear advantages over the cheaper >alternatives, people will buy them. > > Maybe you missed the start of this thread but we were discussing how expensive flash drives were and when, if ever, they'd be a reasonably priced alternative to HDD's, so I don't think people on this list at least would "happily" pay today's prices. I'd like that 96GB drive from memtech but they don't even have a quote for it so I'd guess it's not very cheap... No, today you have to buy a small drive. 4 or 8GB, which doesn't allow you to install a lot of stuff before it's full, and use it as boot disk while keeping the rest of your data on a conventional HDD somewhere. I want a PC with no moving parts and as few cables as possible so I'm going to go for that, and some kind of network disk mounted over WLAN I guess - does anyone have any experience with that and could recommend me some hardware? Netgear (or was it D-link?) has an AP to which you can connect USB harddrives and it will then act as a fileserver (SMB) but I've heard it's not so reliable. /Ragnar
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