[clue-tech] 2.5" ide hdd

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

Hopefully. Bubble memory never took off in the 80's. 

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From: "chris fedde" <chris at fedde.us> 
To: "CLUE technical discussion" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org> 
Sent: Monday, October 4, 2010 2:10:28 PM 
Subject: Re: [clue-tech] 2.5" ide hdd 

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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