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"The consumer market demands higher capacity over safety." My contention is that this is beginning to change. Short of video (and at the risk of being wrong i
by JoelSutherland 18y ago
"The consumer market demands higher capacity over safety."
My contention is that this is beginning to change. Short of video (and at the risk of being wrong in 5 years) there is nothing to do with a 500GB drive.
I think given the trade-off, consumers would choose safety.
- briansmith 18y agoFor the same price point, maybe. But, hard drives are one of the most expensive components of a laptop. Choosing between $500 and $600 is a big deal. Network backup like Mozy is competitively priced, especially when you consider the high chance of catastrophic loss that laptops have (stolen, lost, dropped, flooded). Plus, if you were going to trade 50% of capacity for safety, there are a lot of other kinds of safety precautions to consider. For example, file history versioning (like a local, always-on Mozy or Dropbox or Subversion) would probably protect the user from more data loss than RAID, because most data loss is due to human error, not mechanical failure. That said, I would really like my laptop to have RAID-1. Actually, I have two 100GB hard drives and an Ultrabay...maybe I will give it a shot on my Linux partition.