On Nov 29, 12:34 am, dzomlija <dzomlija.30s...@no-mx.forums.net>
wrote:
> kevin;528845 Wrote:
>
> > Also, For anyone with experience with Western Digital External
> > Drives...I was wodnerign if it was OKAY to keep them plugged in and
> > running since they don't appear to have a suspend mode (which IMO is a
> > VERY stupid design).
>
> > It is my current belief that using anything with moving parts can wear
> > out... gotta love hard drive spindles. FLASH drives are the way of the
> > future for sure...to bad Moore's law doesn't apply to them.
>
> Actually, solid-state harddrives do exists, but they're notoriously
> expensive. Last time I checked, a 120GB solid state drive cost R 20,000
> (about $ 3000)!
>
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> dzomlija
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Wow thats ridiculous!!! $3000?!? why so much? Is it the components
that are used? I'm not much of a hardware guy...but is the typical
Hard drive inside a standard Desktop computer solid state?