<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Hopefully. Bubble memory never took off in the 80's.<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "chris fedde" <chris@fedde.us><br>To: "CLUE technical discussion" <clue-tech@cluedenver.org><br>Sent: Monday, October 4, 2010 2:10:28 PM<br>Subject: Re: [clue-tech] 2.5" ide hdd<br><br>Three years till commercial memristor storage:<br>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11165087<br><br><br>On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com> wrote:<br>> On 10/1/2010 9:05 PM, Jason Ash wrote:<br>><br>> 2.5" laptop hard drives have gotten relatively dirt cheap. Two years ago, I<br>> bought a 120 GB 2.5" IDE hard drive for my laptop for about $100. Now, just<br>> a quick search on tigerdirect.com shows you can get a 160 GB one for 64.99.<br>> You could probably even get a better deal if your willing to take a risk<br>> with ebay. I still have my old 37.5 GB IDE hard drive, but I bought an<br>> enclosure for it, and I use it as an external backup drive now. Jason Ash<br>><br>> Yeah, I just installed a WD Caviar Blue 640 GB in my MacBook for $85 brand<br>> new from MicroCenter. Drives are below dirt-cheap levels.<br>><br>> Now if SSDs would just come down... *<br>><br>> Watching a modern laptop boot with various OSs on it (co-worker did a<br>> self-upgrade to an SSD, no... our IT department isn't willing to pay that<br>> kind of money) in rediculously low times, is cool... smokin' fast Intel SSD,<br>> his POST/BIOS screen takes longer than Win7's full boot cycle to complete.<br>> Tempting. How much time do I waste during reboot cycles? Not enough to pay<br>> for an SSD... yet.<br>><br>> Nate<br>><br>> * Non-1st Generation and good performing SSDs that is. Some of the cheap<br>> crap out there for cheap SSDs get really horrid performance numbers, even if<br>> they are slightly better than a spinning platter.<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> clue-tech mailing list<br>> clue-tech@cluedenver.org<br>> http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech<br>><br>_______________________________________________<br>clue-tech mailing list<br>clue-tech@cluedenver.org<br>http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech<br></div></body></html>