From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 14:48:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F39816A41F for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:48:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ragnar@gatorhole.se) Received: from mail.packetfront.com (mail.packetfront.com [212.247.6.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75DF343D7E for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:48:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ragnar@gatorhole.se) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.packetfront.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DABBA4037; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:48:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.packetfront.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10967-01; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:48:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.159] (unknown [192.168.1.159]) by mail.packetfront.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF54BA4036; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:48:16 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43A81994.9030006@gatorhole.se> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:47:48 +0100 From: Ragnar Lonn Organization: Packetfront User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= References: <43A13E1B.9060106@gatorhole.se> <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> In-Reply-To: <861x076e87.fsf@xps.des.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at packetfront.com Cc: Alexandre DELAY , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HDD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:48:25 -0000 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >Ragnar Lonn 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