This months Linux Journal has a good article on solid state drives and they talk about their comparison against a 4200 RPM 1.8 drive. Does anyone own or have used a SSD? David Quoting Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu>: > On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, J Cruit wrote: > >> Not to add to the slam but if you are looking for multiple drives rather >> than one big one (and to maintain an apples to apples comparision) these >> Western Digital 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0 drives are only 64.99 >> with free shipping. Thats 2 brand new drives with 40 extra GB for 130$, >> a 20$ savings off the listing price. >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136098 >> >> Its a shame but hard drives loose their value quickly as cheaper, >> faster, bigger, better keeps going on the market. > > > Yep. An old prof at UW-Madison told me that in 1967 they bought a hard > drive for their big card-reading computer: The drive cost $66,000 and it > held 2 MB ($33,000,000 per GB). In 1986 I bought a 30 MB HDD for $450 > ($15,000 per GB). We can now buy a 750 GB HDD for $99 ($0.132 per GB). > > So HDD price per GB improved by a factor of 2,200 times from 1967 to 1986 > and by a factor of about 114,000 times from 1986 to 2008, and the > improvement was about 250 million fold from 1967 to 2008. > > I therefore do not recommend HDDs as investments! ;-) > > It's the same for flash drives. A friend bought an 8GB flash thumb drive > for $27 a few weeks ago. My son bought a 4GB flash at Christmas time for > $30. I bought a 1GB flash in 2005 (I believe it was 2005) for $20. So > the number of GB per dollar on flash also is increasing at faster than > exponential rates. > > If this keeps up, what will we be buying in 20 more years??!! > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.