Posted by jdemaris on December 27, 2010 at 08:39:41 from (67.142.130.38):
In Reply to: Re: Laptop posted by greenbeanman in Kansas on December 27, 2010 at 08:28:34:
Seems time will tell. My experience with other types of solid-state storage is - when it goes it goes instantly. I've had several 8 GB thumb-drives crash and lose everything - with no warning.
I find conventional hard-drives to be very reliable, considering they are partly mechancial. Kind of a hybrid of the old floppy drive disk and an old record-player with an arm that reaches out to play a record.
Considering that a 20 MB hard-drive was once considered HUGE, and we now have 2 Terrabyte drives for $200, seems storage is amazingly cheap.
My wife's first lap-top finally got so slow we stopped using it. 7 year old HP Compaq with a single 1.6 processor and 500 MB of RAM. I just stuck a new 500GB hard-drive into it (for $50) and 4 GB of RAM (for another $50), plus a new DVD burner for $25 and it runs almost as fast as our newest lap-tops now. We're going to use it as a portable "file cabinet" and TV when we travel.
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