HDD

[Simon]

No moving parts would be nice but what about all the fans used for cooling?
are you going to use something like water cooling?

-Simon

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:47:48 +0100, Ragnar Lonn wrote:

>Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>
>>Ragnar Lonn <ragnar at gatorhole.se> writes:
>>  
>>
>>>Sorry, didn't see the "today" in your sentence above... But it's
>>>still a bit of a strange comment. 7 years from now, I don't think
>>>people will be very interested to pay as much for a flash disk as
>>>they did for an HDD *today*.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Why not?  People are happily paying as much today for a 4 GB flash
>>chip as they did for a 4 GB hard disk seven or ten years ago.  If
>>they're affordable and provide clear advantages over the cheaper
>>alternatives, people will buy them.
>>  
>>
>
>Maybe you missed the start of this thread but we were discussing how 
>expensive flash
>drives were and when, if ever, they'd be a reasonably priced alternative 
>to HDD's, so
>I don't think people on this list at least would "happily" pay today's 
>prices.
>
>I'd like that 96GB drive from memtech but they don't even have a quote 
>for it so I'd
>guess it's not very cheap...
>
>No, today you have to buy a small drive. 4 or 8GB, which doesn't allow 
>you to
>install a lot of stuff before it's full, and use it as boot disk while 
>keeping the rest
>of your data on a conventional HDD somewhere. I want a PC with no moving
>parts and as few cables as possible so I'm going to go for that, and 
>some kind of
>network disk mounted over WLAN I guess - does anyone have any experience 
>with
>that and could recommend me some hardware?  Netgear (or was it D-link?)
>has an AP to which you can connect USB harddrives and it will then act as a
>fileserver (SMB) but I've heard it's not so reliable.
>
>  /Ragnar
>
>
>
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