Yesterday I saw a 320GB hard drive on sale for $60 (slickdeals.net)
That's got to be almost what the drive costs to make!

cue "I remember 13 foot floppy disks that held 2 bytes" comments ;)
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Martin

Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> On the other hand, harddisk/RAMs becomes much bigger and cheaper now.
> And processor becomes faster and faster as well. So the software will become
> bigger and bigger. I think that is how the IT related companies are
> earning money.
>
> Actually I see similar trend in the embedded application as well. Your average
> cell phone now mostly have a fast processor and the firmware is getting bigger
> and bigger (buggier as well).
>
> And tasks used to be handled by 8051s are now handled by (potentially cheaper)
> ARM7 or even ARM9.
>
>
> Xiaofan
>   

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