POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Monitor sizes : Re: Hardware sizes Server Time
29 Jul 2024 14:26:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Hardware sizes  
From: James Holsenback
Date: 8 Mar 2012 08:35:34
Message: <4f58b5a6$1@news.povray.org>
On 03/08/2012 08:35 AM, James Holsenback wrote:
> 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

LOL ... finger don't fail me now ... of the dodo bird


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