Not Much Happening in Hard Drives This Year

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Not Much Happening in Hard Drives This Year

Posted by michael on Sunday January 16, 2005 @06:40AM 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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Slow news day? by sulli · 2005-01-16 06:43 · 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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Re:No news by deft · 2005-01-16 06:50 · Score: 3, Funny

"No news Is good news?"

I think you mean "no news IS news".

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Re:What about reliability? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-16 06:54 · Score: 5, Funny

very few people would need >160gb

Surely you meant to say 640k?
Mop your brow and head on home... by Marko+DeBeeste · 2005-01-16 07:03 · 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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except, you know by geekoid · 2005-01-16 07:18 · 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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Re:Storage by Feztaa · 2005-01-16 08:10 · 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.