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HDDs will be less expensive
fudzilla.com - 30 days ago
HDDs will be less expensive
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tech3d.net - 27 days ago
Magnetic-based HDDs still cheapest in 2020
— tech3d.net — According to a new study, if HDDs continue to progress at their current pace, then in 2020... a two-disk, 2.5-inch disk drive will be capable of storing more than 14 TB and will cost about $40 (today, a typical 500 GB hard drive costs about $100). (more) Magnetic-based HDDs still cheapest in 2020

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DUH! News of the Day: HDDs will be less expensive
Madshrimps News RSS Feed — ... magazine IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, which we get for the spot the ball competition, Professor Mark Kryder and PhD student Chang Soo Kim of Carnegie Mellon University have investigated 13 up-and-coming NVM technologies to see whether one of them might outperform HDDs on a cost-per-TB basis in 2020. They reasons that if HDDs continue to progress at their current pace, then in 2020 a two-disk, 2.5-inch disk drive will be capable of storing more than 14 TB and will cost about $40. http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/16133/38/

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