SSD drives

[Jerry Feldman]

A while back we had a discussion about SSD drives. Today there is an
article in Slashdot:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/03/23/1647239/SSD-Price-Drops-Signa=
ling-End-of-Spinning-Media?art_pos=3D4
This references an article in Gadgetopolis:
http://www.gadgetopolis.com/posts/7567/all/1
"The Death Watch for Hard Disk Drive Technology Begins Now (Finally!)"

I can't remember how many times (going back at least to the 1970s) where
I've believed that the magnetic spinning media was dead. Those were the
days of the DECTape (randomly accessible tape) and, of course PPT and
026/029 cards (Well Hollerith predates most of us :-)

I think the notebook, netbook, smartphone markets might be providing the
pull right now, as costs come down, we might see these making their way
into the data centers.

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