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The end of the hard drive as we know it?

Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by Plastic Nev, Oct 2, 2014.

  1. Plastic Nev

    Plastic Nev SUPER MODERATOR IN MEMORY

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    Plastic Nev, Oct 2, 2014
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    Geez and I just ordered my first SSD. 256 GB for $99.
     
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    The SSD's have really come down in price. I can see why. They are coming out with huge sizes now.
     
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    I have been looking at a 500GB SSD to try in this rig of mine. Amazon are selling a crucial one for a few pennies less than £150.00 here :-

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=038TZJHWHY6PXJ6Y7YYY

    The size keeps going up, and the price is going down, all good news.
    After a month of large bills, I need to wait for this next months pension to afford one. :biggrin:

    However that thing from Samsung is going to be a real game changer, in itself it might be hugely expensive, but it might persuade other manufacturers to think about mounting on PCIe for smaller sizes.
    Does make me wonder about how the BIOS will find it to boot from it, but quite probably there won't be a problem.

    Nev.
     
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    Don't we have to ask sooner or later how fast we really want our computers to be? Judging the price of Ssd drives even with prices coming down I have yet to do any but my 2 desktops. This Sony laptop is so fast and I do not use it much so I never bothered upgrading that one. A 7200 rpm usually makes a nice difference vs a 5400 rpm hard drive and I have such a drive here and have never seen fit to bother with that.
     
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    Speed of handling data may just be a very big requirement if they ever get to the star trek level of speech control, especially if it is going to understand every known dialect, accent, and inflection of speech. I know that to some extent that is already with us, but at the moment in a very crude and basic fashion and at the moment depends on memory to learn a particular speech pattern, maybe speed of data handling might be able to cut that bit out of the equation.
    Just my thoughts on it, even if they are wrong, who cares it is only for fun. :biggrin:
     
    Plastic Nev, Oct 5, 2014
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