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That's an understatement. It's unbelievable to me how quickly we have moved from <100MB/sec drives being the norm to (relatively) inexpensive 1000+MB/sec drives
by jsight 12y ago
That's an understatement. It's unbelievable to me how quickly we have moved from <100MB/sec drives being the norm to (relatively) inexpensive 1000+MB/sec drives with incredibly fast seek times.
Now if only the laptop manufacturers would include SSDs in more mainstream models. It's depressing walking into the average computer retailer and seeing practically every shelf stuffed with slow HDs and salesmen trying to pitch the huge importance of minor differences in processor speed.
- jseliger 12y agoIt's depressing walking into the average computer retailer and seeing practically every shelf stuffed with slow HDs and salesmen trying to pitch the huge importance of minor differences in processor speed As far as I can tell the computer market is bifurcating or has bifurcated into people who give a shit about their experience and will pay for better (in which case they tend to buy Apple, or some select PC brands like Lenovo (until the certificate fiasco) or the Dell XPS 13"), and people who buy solely on price. I can't imagine many sophisticated buyers going through a conventional retail store, and, furthermore, if price is the primary consideration then saying "It's a big drive and a cheap computer!" is better than trying to explain why an SSD is $50 more or whatever.
- yuhong 12y agoI can't imagine many sophisticated buyers going through a conventional retail store Currently, but would it not be possible to fix them? How profitable are SSDs for example?
- to3m 12y agoDoesn't seem like all that long ago that 1000+MBytes/sec was more than you'd get out of memcpy. Go back 20 years, and you couldn't even read out of L1 cache that quickly...