[clue-tech] 2.5" ide hdd

[chris fedde]

Three years till commercial memristor storage:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11165087


On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
> On 10/1/2010 9:05 PM, Jason Ash wrote:
>
> 2.5" laptop hard drives have gotten relatively dirt cheap. Two years ago, I
> bought a 120 GB 2.5" IDE hard drive for my laptop for about $100. Now, just
> a quick search on tigerdirect.com shows you can get a 160 GB one for 64.99.
> You could probably even get a better deal if your willing to take a risk
> with ebay. I still have my old 37.5 GB IDE hard drive, but I bought an
> enclosure for it, and I use it as an external backup drive now. Jason Ash
>
> Yeah, I just installed a WD Caviar Blue 640 GB in my MacBook for $85 brand
> new from MicroCenter.  Drives are below dirt-cheap levels.
>
> Now if SSDs would just come down... *
>
> Watching a modern laptop boot with various OSs on it (co-worker did a
> self-upgrade to an SSD, no... our IT department isn't willing to pay that
> kind of money) in rediculously low times, is cool... smokin' fast Intel SSD,
> his POST/BIOS screen takes longer than Win7's full boot cycle to complete.
> Tempting.  How much time do I waste during reboot cycles?  Not enough to pay
> for an SSD... yet.
>
> Nate
>
> * Non-1st Generation and good performing SSDs that is.  Some of the cheap
> crap out there for cheap SSDs get really horrid performance numbers, even if
> they are slightly better than a spinning platter.
>
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