Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:56:01 -0500 From: "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> To: "Dag-Erling Smørgrav" <des@des.no>, "Ragnar Lonn" <ragnar@gatorhole.se> Cc: Alexandre DELAY <alexandre.delay@free.fr>, "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HDD Message-ID: <20051220175441.A41A643D5A@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <43A81994.9030006@gatorhole.se>
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No moving parts would be nice but what about all the fans used for cooling? are you going to use something like water cooling? -Simon On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:47:48 +0100, Ragnar Lonn wrote: >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 > > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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