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Not Much Happening in Hard Drives This Year

Posted by michael on from the booooring dept.

yahooooo writes "CoolTechZone.com has an article that talks about desktop hard drive developments in 2005. It looks this year is going to be a dud for the storage industry."

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  1. This is news? by christopherfinke · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't wait for the next two Slashdot stories: "The sky is still blue" and "There's nothing interesting to report."

    1. Re:This is news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      free news service????
      what news?

    2. Re:This is news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      for the fucking intelligent discussions

  2. Slow news day? by sulli · · Score: 5, Funny
    Not much happening in hard drives this year.

    The calculated scores don't carry much weight.

    Nothing particularly surprising here.

    Did anything happen today that does matter?

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  3. Re:No news by deft · · Score: 3, Funny

    "No news Is good news?"

    I think you mean "no news IS news".

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  4. Re:What about reliability? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    very few people would need >160gb

    Surely you meant to say 640k?

  5. Mop your brow and head on home... by Marko+DeBeeste · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everything worth inventing has been invented. We've hit the ceiling. No more unexpected advances. Have a nice day. Smoke if you've got em.

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  6. In other news... by GLowder · · Score: 2, Funny



    Generalíssimo Francisco Franco is still dead!

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  7. except, you know by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    size increases, but that doesn't count as an improvment..
    I mean, if they would put neon on them, now THAT would be an improvement.

    sheesh

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  8. Re:Storage by Feztaa · · Score: 4, Funny

    Funny, I have the opposite problem. I'm buying DVDs so that I can delete the videos that are taking up so much space on my HD.

  9. I don't know what anybody's talkin' about... by rsilvergun · · Score: 2, Funny

    my harddrive's had lots of changes this year. I added more memory to my harddrive, I added a new video to it to play them new games. Now my computer, that hasn't been upgrade since I bought it from Viewsonic.....

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  10. Re:What about reliability? by sahonen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pictures are another (I have so many they take up tens of gigs as well in JPG format).

    Yet another case of pr0n driving technological development.

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  11. Re:What about reliability? by arkulkis · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anime !?!?! That's even MORE depraved!