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Getting Rid of the Disks

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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IF I EVER MEET YOU I WILL MAKE YOU USE LINUX!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-20 05:17 · Score: -1, Troll
IF I EVER MEET YOU I WILL KICK LINUX UP YOUR ASS! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-20 05:19 · Score: -1, Troll
Interesting. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-20 05:30 · Score: -1, Troll

I must admit, I found this quote rather interesting:

Several aspects are examined, such as IF I EVER MEET YOU I WILL KICK YOUR ASS.
Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-20 06:20 · Score: -1, Troll

shut up!
Re:RAM swapfile by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-20 06:29 · Score: -1, Troll

Oh please!! Linux has the worst memory management system out of any modern OS (OSX, WinNT/2K/XP, etc.)