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He's talking about 7200RPM HDDs, but nine years down the road, shouldn't we expect SSDs or whatever comes next to replace moving-parts technology? Nine years i
by chaosmachine 17y ago
He's talking about 7200RPM HDDs, but nine years down the road, shouldn't we expect SSDs or whatever comes next to replace moving-parts technology?
Nine years is a long time. Back in 2001, most drives will still sitting around 40gb.
- wmf 17y agoThe price/GB gap between flash and disk is ~30x and it's shrinking slowly, if at all. In 2019 I expect disk to still be cheaper than flash, although flash may be cheap enough for many applications.
- andrewvc 17y agoAgreed, hell, tape is still economical for some circumstances, disks will be with us for a long time.