Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:25:33 -0500 | Subject | Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream... | From | (Lennart Sorensen) |
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On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 06:21:12PM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote: > I cannot disagree with the obvious trend to date, but rather than argue the > many reasons why ram prices are artificially high right now, instead just > grab a stick of ram in your left hand, and the heavy lump of precision > engineered metal that is a hard drive in your right, and see if you can > convince yourself that the one on the right will still be ahead of the curve > in another 14 years.
A metal case with a small circuit board, and some magnetic splattered (very precisly) on a disk doesn't seem like as much work as trying to fit over 10^12 transistors onto dies fitting in the same space. Making waffers for memory isn't free, and higher densities take work to develop. I am not sure what the current density for ram if in terms of bits per area. I am sure it is a lot less than what a harddisk managed with magnetic material. I am amazed either one works.
> Maybe it will. Drop me a mail in 2020 and I'll shout you dinner if you're > right ;)
We will see. :)
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