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6 Sep 2024 15:18:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Current trends  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 21 Jan 2009 18:09:36
Message: <4977ab30@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> - It appears that "solid state harddrives" are now reaching useful sizes
> and sane pricing levels. (E.g., when I first looked at this it was
> something like £1,000 for 10 GB, which is obviously absurd. Now it's
> something like £2/GB with sizes up to 250GB.)

News today: an 8GB *RAM-based* solid-state drive:
http://tinyurl.com/8d64qv

Transfer rate 6GB/second, except SATA doesn't support that much! :D

(hmm that might be 6.4 giga *bits* per second and arstechnica got it wrong?)


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