On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:41:25 +0000, Invisible wrote:

>>> Heh, I still remember looking at one of the stacks, and seeing that it
>>> had *seven* 4.2 GB drives in it. (Remember, in 1997, those suckers
>>> where EXPENSIVE.) I remember feeling slightly giddy trying to compute
>>> how much total storage space such a monster RAID setup... Ah, the
>>> memories.
>>
>> Indeed, I still recall that the Fortune 50 company I worked for a
>> decade ago had an EMC storage array with 750 GB of storage in it....
>>
>> My new *laptop* has a drive that big in it.  I've got about 4 TB of
>> storage here at home now.
> 
> The fun thing is, apparently SSD has
> 
> 1. Reached price levels where Normal Humans can potentially afford them.
> 
> 2. Reached capacities where you might actually buy this stuff.
> 
> Interesting times ahead, eh?

Indeed, I've a friend in Scotland who has a Thinkpad with an SSD in it 
and the performance is good, but the battery life is also quite good (I 
think he said he gets 10 hours out of a single battery).

Jim

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