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29 Jul 2024 14:21:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Hardware sizes  
From: James Holsenback
Date: 8 Mar 2012 08:34:29
Message: <4f58b565$1@news.povray.org>
On 03/08/2012 08:13 AM, Invisible wrote:
> On 08/03/2012 01:08 PM, Warp wrote:
>
>> To be fair, they could build a 64TB USB drive. It's just that nobody
>> would buy it because it would probably cost more than your year's salary.
>> Hence it makes no sense to make one until the technology becomes
>> significantly cheaper.
>
> Right. /That/ at least makes some sense. Nobody would buy such a
> product, so there's no point trying to make it.
>
> If there was a 64TB HD, I'm fairly certain that somebody would want to
> buy it. The only reason it wouldn't sell is if it was too expensive.
> Obviously everything starts off expensive - there are design costs to
> recoup. But would it be prohibitively expensive?

I wouldn't be able to cite and articles on the subject, but it seems to 
me that the mechanical HD is headed the way for the dodo bird


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