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HDD / USB Storage ... my my my how things have changed
« on: September 22, 2009, 03:10:02 PM »
I was in Fry's Electronics the other day and saw some 16GB USB flash drives for like $30 and 32GB for $50.  I was at Walmart today to shop for various items and saw a Sandisk Cruzer 8GB for $20 so I had to pick it up.  About 2 years ago I bought what was at that time the high end 1GB Sandisk Cruzer for $50, then last year I bought a 4GB for $40.  And even 5 years ago I bought a 128MB which was the second highest available next to the 256MB for $30.   I cannot believe how much space they are putting on these things and how space is getting cheap again.  Seems every 7-8 years harddrive (and in this case flash memory) gets dirt cheap.  Hell, yesterday ay Fry's there was a Hitachi Deskstar 500GB for under $50 and a 750GB for under $70.  I saw a 1 TB for $89 and a freaking 2TB for $169.  I'm seeing 250GB Western Digital drives for $49. 

Isn't this just insane? 
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Re: HDD / USB Storage ... my my my how things have changed
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2009, 09:50:55 AM »
Size has increased dramatically, but overall speed has not scaled at the same rate. The same can be said for RAM.
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Re: HDD / USB Storage ... my my my how things have changed
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2009, 02:27:08 PM »
Maybe the speed at which physical harddrives can read/write is limited to the hardware technology.  In other words wait until solid state harddrives become more mainstream and you'll see speeds increase.  I doubt a typical magnetic motorized arm style harddrive is going to ever successfully (or cheaply) achieve more than 15,000rpm without exploding.  haha
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