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Originally Posted by Craig
Hopefully my next laptop drive will be solidstate, not a harddrive. Just waiting for them to get a little bigger and cheaper. It will be nice to see the end of spinning drives.
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My current Asus 1000 netbook has 40GB solid state for $350, with an external 1TB USB drive for $200. That amount of storage would not even be possible on the old IBMs, considering not only the cost but the number of disk addresses and controllers would far exceed what the operating systems were capable of managing. Remember storage was so expensive they stored the year as 2 digits instead of 4!