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Personally I find it amusing that after all these years, storage has surpassed CPUs in terms of the ratio of price / volume occupied. I wonder how this will tr
by CoreDumpling 17y ago
Personally I find it amusing that after all these years, storage has surpassed CPUs in terms of the ratio of price / volume occupied. I wonder how this will trend in the future.
- jrockway 17y agoApples to oranges... For one thing, CPUs don't have to do anything when power is not applied to them. Your disk has to keep all its data regardless of whether it has power or not. Ignoring that, storage is something you need a lot more of than addition circuits or whatever; if you look at the diagrams of CPUs showing what transistors show what purposes, you'll see a lot of them are the cache. Because there is more need for storage than computation.