Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Ragnar Lonn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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