[Ti] 100gb Drives Announced!

[kalirhe at umdnj.edu]

Quoting kalirhe at UMDNJ.EDU:

> Quoting "Dr. Trevor J. Hutley" <hutley at geneva-link.ch>:
> 
> > At 13:23 -1000 22/4/04, aron wrote:
> > >At 10:49 AM 4/22/2004, you wrote:
> > >>http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2004_04/pr2201.htm
> > >>
> > >>I don't know about you guys, but I'll be picking one of these up the
> > second
> > >>they're available under $500
> > >
> > >Oh no, it's 4200RPM though.
> > 
> > Aron - exactly my thought !  Since I have a 5400 rpm 80 Gb drive in 
> > my Al-book, it would offer me no advantage (since a 25% size increase 
> > running 23% slower does not seem real progress to me).
> 
> Unless your concern is mainly with information storage capacity issues
> (vs
> retrieval) - in which case you'll be doing 20% better with the 100 GB
> drive.

Oops...sorry - should be "25% better".


Best,

Henry