Getting Rid of the Disks

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday April 20, 2003 @04:52AM from the yeah-that'll-happen dept.

Kneht writes "Dan's Data has an interesting article on what it would cost to get rid of your HDDs and replace them with SSDs because hard drives suck. Several aspects are examined, such as required UPS, compact flash, etc. Read the article and you may get a new appreciation for your lowly 7200rpm drive." Funny, I was just thinking that I should start using 120GB disks as my removable media.

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Damn by i_need_no_nick · 2003-04-20 04:56 · Score: 1, Funny

I just upgraded all my hard disks to bigger models :(
Huh? by SN74S181 · 2003-04-20 04:58 · Score: 5, Funny

Get rid of my High Density Diskettes (HDD) and replace them with Single Sided Diskettes (SSD) ???

That would be expensive, because the old drives are expensive when you find them from collectors on eBay, besides which I would have far less storage capacity (180K instead of the 1.44M I have now).

It reminds me of the short period back in the day when I ran my BBS on a three floppy diskette PC system. The third floppy diskette was a 5-1/4" 720K drive (quad density) but users complained about the slowness, and this was 1200 baud users.
Price? by brian728s · 2003-04-20 04:58 · Score: 5, Funny

From the point of view of serious corporate customers, $US100,000 can be a great big bargain.
I think I'll keep my magnetic drives and spend my $999,900 on something else.
1. Re:Price? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-20 05:23 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Do you work on the U.S. Federal budget?
2. Re:Price? by IIRCAFAIKIANAL · 2003-04-20 05:33 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I can forgive spalling errors on Slashdot. But numbers? I'm tempted to make you my first foe! :P
  
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3. Re:Price? by jpetts · 2003-04-20 05:50 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  From the point of view of serious corporate customers, $US100,000 can be a great big bargain.
  I think I'll keep my magnetic drives and spend my $999,900 on something else.
  
  A pocket calculator?
  
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4. Re:Price? by dotgain · 2003-04-20 20:30 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Perhaps you meant a grammar checker?
  Slashdot _is_ a grammar checker!
Re:Why bash hard drives? by Alpha_Nerd · 2003-04-20 05:10 · Score: 5, Funny

Sure, it isn't as fast as DDR

You've never seen me play DDR... Not exactly fast !
about reading the article by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-20 05:12 · Score: 4, Funny

lynx -dump http://slashdot.org/ | grep "ead the article" required UPS, compact flash, etc. Read the article and you may get a loop" (read the article.) The goofy loop put about seven miles between

Two mentions of "read the article" on the front page. Are they trying to start a fad?
Mathboy strikes again by Nf1nk · 2003-04-20 05:16 · Score: 3, Funny

First attempt at being a math nazi....

shouldn't this be "I think I'll keep my magnetic drives and spend my $99,900 on something else."

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Here, I'll save you the trouble by ottffssent · 2003-04-20 05:16 · Score: 4, Funny

"RAM costs more than disk". There. Now you don't need to read the story, which is probably /.ed by now anyway.

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Re:RAM swapfile by caluml · 2003-04-20 05:41 · Score: 3, Funny

Lol, true, I didn't pick up on that.
Imagine making your RAM-based swapfile bigger than your total RAM. Swap in, swap out, swap in, swap out...

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Re:I'd pay more for a solid state drive... by unitron · 2003-04-20 19:07 · Score: 2, Funny

"Does anyone remember the HardCard? It was a hard drive + controller on a fullsized ISA card. I had one... I still might have it in my 286, I wonder where I put it?"
Probably not in slot 8 :-)

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