new hard drive

[Martin Naef]

Hi Peter

Peter Korsten wrote:
>>> I'm getting an SSD for mine:
>>> 	http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ssd-memoright,review-30808.html
> Zooper cool.
> 
>> They are! Just a few more years 'till they're mainstream I guess.
> 
> And how many more years before they ditch the 3.5"/2.5" form factor? In 

Hard to tell - but it's certainly in the cards. Yet, I've just bought a 
1TB disk for £130, so the SSD clearly have some catching up to do.

> Just imagine how much smaller your desktop computer could be, and it 
> would use far less power...

Disks don't use that much power either (I think 10W is a typical 
figure), compared to the rest of the system (CPU and graphics...)

Bye
Martin