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Getting Rid of the Disks

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Would you like to use Zinux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NO I WANT YOU TO FUCK IT!

    Now go and get fucked by it now!

  2. IF I EVER MEET YOU I WILL KICK YOUR ASS!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  3. minor nit: b v. B by _|()|\| · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can we please use an upper-case "B" to refer to bytes, reserving a lower-case "b" to refer to bits. When the author describes a "20Gb" drive, I'm thinking of something that holds a little over 2 GB.

  4. thank god by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    dansdata

    dan.

    he is, to be frank, the suckiest suck who ever sucked.

    hi as a journalist here down under, and all the stuff he writes..he just has no idea what he is talking about.

    down here he is a running joke.

    like when he wrote about how sircam was no threat, you just delete so many bites of infected file...then the idiot got infected...

    thank god he got slashdotted eh.

  5. Re:Mathboy strikes again by Santos+L.+Halper · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Its 2002 where the hell is my flying car?
    Flying cars don't come out until 2003.

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