RE: Why do computers still have disk drives?

["Haase, Justin C." <justin.haase@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's coming... Saw a story about a company that was able to master it,
somewhere in Texas I think, was about 3-6 months ago, IIRC.  Google for
it.  We'll see it sooner than later.

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Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
Kingland Systems Corporation

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg Wenzloff
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 8:19 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Why do computers still have disk drives?

It's Friday -- often a quieter day in the office.

I was wondering why don't new computers like the i5 just have solid
state memory and forget about disk drives.   Think about it.   You can
get a 2GB thumb drive for $75 or less.    Why can't the manufacturers
just load about 200 GB of this solid state memory into the machine?
Think of the speed improvement.

Or am I missing something?
Maybe need more coffee.

Just my thoughts,
Greg

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