OT: Oh no, not one of those 'remember when this cost..." threads.

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010, John Esak wrote:
>No, I don't want to start one of those threads.... And I won't add to it if
>it starts.  We have all heard it all and commiserate with each other on how
>much we each paid for our first 12 Megabyte hard disk. BUT, this just
>absolutely blows away all the old stuff.  Just two things.  I got a
>TigerDirect email today. One of there typical sale items for today... Are
>you sitting down.  A 500 Gigabyte hard drive for $39.95.  Gulp!  I mean,
>that is beyond belief compared to back in 1982 when I bought my... Blah,
>blah... Well, you get the point!  $39 bucks... Good god you could build a 3
>Terabyte array for $240!!!!  Sheesh.

John:

You forget the original Radio Shack 8MB hard drive, the huge one
that chirped like a bird, the primary one cost about $4,500, and
they would be fried if powered on without removing the lock on
the bottom that retracted the heads.

>Okay, second thing. My buddy just bought a 256 Gb hard drive... Non moving
>media (a phrase I coined about 10 years ago... Or, at least I think I made
>it up for a keynote speech one year...)  Think of it, 256 Gb on a plug in
>memory flash drive. It just has a regular SATA connector on it! I think it
>is the new 3.0 SATA though, so this little bugger would be a killer in my
>handheld PDA. Which now has a 40Gb mechanical spinning, breakable, crashable
>hard drive in it.  I can't wait, and if the company doesn't do it soon, I
>may retrofit the flash card in myself!  :-)

Seagate came out recently with a hybrid SSD/HDD drive that
combines solid state and conventional rotating hard drive in a
single unit at a fairly reasonable price.  Newegg has the 500GB
unit today for $129.99.  This is a 2.5in drive, thus would be a
major upgrade on most laptops that have slower drives.

http://tech.spotcoolstuff.com/seagate-momentus-xl-ssh/hdd-ssd-hybrid

Bill
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