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Are Consumer Hard Drives Headed Into History?
Lucas123 writes "With NAND flash fabricators ramping up production, per GB prices of solid state drives are expected to drop by more than half by this time next year to about 50 cents. Even so, consumers still look at three things when purchasing a computer: CPU power, memory size, and drive capacity, giving spinning disk the edge. SSD manufacturers like Samsung and SanDisk have tried but failed to change consumer attitudes toward choosing SSDs for their performance, durability and lower power use. But, with the release of the new MacBook Air (sans hard disk drive), Steve Jobs has joined the marketing push and may have the clout to shift the market away from hard drives, even if they're still an order of magnitude cheaper."
Wait, I'm supposed to feel like a 14 year old girl again? Damn, I musta missed something in my childhood!
SSC
makes you feel like a 14 year old girl again
Speaking as the parent of two teenage girls, feeling like a 14 year old girl is not a good thing at all.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
How's your Intel 80386 is going? It's so reliable that it can still work after 20 years!
SSD give a very noticeable performance boost. However, they cost too much right now, so it's a bit hard to justify them.
feeling like a 14 year old girl is not a good thing at all.
Not once I'm through with them.
You must be new here. It's sacrilege to run a non-Apple program on a mac when there is an Apple alternative.
Which, by the way, sounds like somebody blowing on the open end of a jug.
Not the Big Mac, but the McRIb for sure.
I still cannot find the droids I am looking for...
SSDs cost about 5x what equivalent size hard drives cost right now, from a brief look at newegg.
So your 4-disk raid will be at 80% of the price of the SSD. And has the minor problem of not actually fitting in your laptop.
No. Apple sells much more than 20% of >$1,000 PCs (something like 90%).
I think they mean you are supposed to feel like a 14 year old boy feeling a fourteen year old girl for the first time, again. :-)
Sure enough, the cow costume was hanging up next to the superhero outfit and sailors uniform. (S,Spud)
Says Netcraft, obviously.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
If you had owned a Dell laptop instead of a MacBook Pro, the thieves wouldn't have even bothered to steal it. =)