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Disk capacity growth rate slowing
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| 3rd February 2010 11:14 GMT
| Chris Mellor
Posted on 02/03/2010 8:50:40 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: ShadowAce
To: All
See the PDF for a readable chart.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Four words: Solid State Nano Memory
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posted on
02/03/2010 8:58:41 AM PST
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: Incorrigible
Hey...I got a terrabyte the other day for $100. Good enough for me! :)
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:27:20 AM PST
by
The Duke
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Is Intel the only reliable SSD?
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:32:52 AM PST
by
montag813
To: Incorrigible
Got an industrial type computer at work last summer. Has an 8 GB solid state drive and a 500 GB frisbee drive. The OS (WinXP) is on the solid state drive and the apps and data live on the spinning media.
That thing is the fastest booting XP machine I’ve ever seen!
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:52:04 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
My first HD was 40 MB, lol.
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posted on
02/03/2010 9:54:20 AM PST
by
gilor
(Pull the wool over your own eyes!)
To: gilor
My first machine had no hard drive.
Storage was on cassette audio tapes.
To: Yo-Yo
frisbee drive ?
whats that?
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posted on
02/03/2010 10:07:33 AM PST
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Waste and fraud are synonymous with gov't spending)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Can someone explain why computers aren’t going away from sata (moving parts) hard drives and using instead RAM type (non moving part) Hard Drives?
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posted on
02/03/2010 10:12:10 AM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
To: Mad Dawgg
They are.
In 2 years all high-end laptops will ship with solid state drives. Although my Windows 7 PC boots very fast I will be installing an 80Gig SSCD drive as my boot and reconfiguring the old drive as data-only.
I'll probably mess everything up first time out.
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posted on
02/03/2010 11:12:13 AM PST
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corkoman
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
frisbee drive ? whats that?
Spinning disks.
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posted on
02/03/2010 1:36:30 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Mad Dawgg
Solid state drives ARE replacing disk drives. HDDs are going the way of the CRT.
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posted on
02/03/2010 1:46:53 PM PST
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IDFbunny
To: Mad Dawgg
The interface for most solid state drives is still SATA.
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02/04/2010 8:18:57 AM PST
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ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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02/04/2010 8:20:11 AM PST
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ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I can't see this mattering too much, except for huge data centers. Is there anyone running out of disk space on home PCs, workstations or typical servers?
Are 1-2TB drives just too small?
I know that ours aren't anywhere near full, and 500MB+ drives (usually 2.5" in our rack-mounts) will easily keep us for a very long time.
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posted on
02/04/2010 8:23:56 AM PST
by
TChris
("Hello", the politician lied.)
To: Elderberry
you had audio tape? we used teletype paper tape off a timeshare host...;)
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posted on
02/04/2010 8:29:38 AM PST
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bt_dooftlook
(ACORN = Another Communist-Overrun Rats-Nest)
To: Elderberry
Tandy Color Computer - 16K Extended Color Basic
Save your BASIC or Assembler program to cassette tape, again and again, just in case.
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02/04/2010 8:30:58 AM PST
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DigitalVideoDude
(It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
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