HDD

[Ragnar Lonn]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

>Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> writes:
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>>On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:01:40PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
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>>>log2(94) < 7
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>>Hmm, not sure what you're getting at...?
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>Elementary arithmetics.  If flash prices are currently 94 times higher
>than hdd prices and they halve every year, it will take them less than
>seven years to reach today's hdd prices.
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And you feel confident that HDD prices will stay fixed the next 7 years 
then?
Elementary or advanced arithmetics, it doesn't matter if you don't think 
first ;)

I don't know the exact rate that HDD prices drop but I'd suspect it's 
close to 50%
per year.

  /Ragnar