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| Thread ID: 58231 | 2005-05-25 12:32:00 | 16GB solid state hard drives | zqwerty (97) | PC World Chat |
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| 358428 | 2005-05-25 12:32:00 | Go here to read about this: www.theinquirer.net |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 358429 | 2005-05-25 22:47:00 | Thanks for that, zqwerty. Our nice 15 yr old neighbour came over yesterday to return the USB flash drive that I loaned to her, and she happily told us about getting a new iPod. My wife asked, "But where do you put in the tape or CD?" :rolleyes: Nowadays we hardly remember 5 inch drives, and floppies along with CRTs are outdated. It may not be too long that we look on mechanical HDs the same way. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 358430 | 2005-05-25 22:54:00 | Yeah. Interesting. Solid State's the way to go. | mark c (247) | ||
| 358431 | 2005-05-26 01:51:00 | 16 GB isn't going to be that useful for laptops as the only drive. What are you going to put on that? OS and a few programs? It's sortof a backwards step in technology unless they can come up with much bigger capacities. | vapo (5203) | ||
| 358432 | 2005-05-26 02:09:00 | lol you only need a couple of gig for the OS and a couple of programs. 16 gig is heaps for a lot of uses. crikly a lot pc's i see even with XP, office, games, mp3 and they still don't get over 10 gig. what i can see a lot doing is useing fast solid state drives as main drive then having other slower bigger drives as bulk data storage. naturally it won't all fit in some laptops etc. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 358433 | 2005-05-26 03:02:00 | One of these in my flaptop would be ace! My network will shortly be doing bulk storage, and all my local stuff and portable on a solid state drive would be supurb! Also if i could forget about cost and stuff, i'll have one for my next desktop please, a SS drive for "/" and a large capasity mechanical one for "/home" Mind you, by the time i have the money, i'm sure capacity will have quadrupled! |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 358434 | 2005-05-26 03:32:00 | low power consumption as well! be great for laptops to use when running off battery | plod (107) | ||
| 358435 | 2005-05-26 06:22:00 | lol you only need a couple of gig for the OS and a couple of programs. 16 gig is heaps for a lot of uses. crikly a lot pc's i see even with XP, office, games, mp3 and they still don't get over 10 gig. Games these days are starting to come on DVD-9s. On my desktop I have 72GB just for programs and it's basically full. |
vapo (5203) | ||
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