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or, at very least, the opening statement in it is inane.
"With all the developments in memory technology you could be
forgiven for thinking that the lowly hard drive is dead."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/cl...413198.stm
Who the heck thinks that the hard drive is dead?
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Oh yeah, don't you know that you soon will be able to get 750GB flash drives...but they will cost $49,867. LOL about the hard drive being dead. :-).
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I guess both of you are fairly young, in the late 70's, and through most of the 1980's, the Hard Drive was constantly in the sights of RAM drives, Bubble Memory, all sorts of devices, that were less complex, and had no moving parts, and were much faster at reading, and writing data. HD size was growing very slowly, and prices were astronomical, 30 MegaBytes (YES, MegaBytes!), was $800! Then the big drive makers started making huge strides, 750 GigaByte drives are now under $500. For awhile it looked damn shaky for the Hard Drive, it has made a full recovery and is on steroids.
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Hey, I bought one of those 30-megabyte hard drives for $800. Had it installed in my Mac 512. (Was there a plus in there?)
Was so proud of myself that I bit the bullet and opted for the 30, instead of the 20. That 512 served me well, for several years.
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>>For awhile it looked damn shaky for the Hard Drive, it has made a full recovery and is on steroids.
Even after the congressional hearings?
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[quote mattkime]Even after the congressional hearings?
Any modern Hard Drive can kick those wimpy congressmen in the Nads!
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In 1990, I spent $1000 on a 100MB harddrive from LaCie -- I've still got it too! [no, not hooked up] It still has a pretty case...
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[quote BigGuynRusty]I guess both of you are fairly young, in the late 70's, and through most of the 1980's, the Hard Drive was constantly in the sights of RAM drives, Bubble Memory, all sorts of devices, that were less complex, and had no moving parts, and were much faster at reading, and writing data. HD size was growing very slowly, and prices were astronomical, 30 MegaBytes (YES, MegaBytes!), was $800! Then the big drive makers started making huge strides, 750 GigaByte drives are now under $500. For awhile it looked damn shaky for the Hard Drive, it has made a full recovery and is on steroids.
BGnR
I wasn't talking about how things used to be, I was talking about how things are today. Today flash memory is MUCH more expensive per Gigabyte than hard drives are. And my first hard drive was an internal 30MB that cost $475 (always on the tail end of technology - a budget shopper).
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my first ipod came with punch cards!
