jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri Nov 30 10:24:06 CST 2007
LOL, think back Lambert. In 1982 I purchased a dual 8" floppy which provided me with 1 mb of data storage per drive. $600 Paid. I am certainly not buying these solid state disks, simply noting that they are finally available. However last year I paid $125 for a board and $100 / gigabyte to build a 4 gig ram drive because I needed it. The access speed was key to getting double the performance out of an address validation system. That is $500 for 4 gigs, which I purchased less than 2 years ago, and it did exactly what I needed and paid for itself 10 times over. These new drives are $430 for a 32 gig drive that is plug in compatible with my IDE port. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147021 And how much was your example hard disk 2 years ago? These flash disks will probably never replace rotating media everywhere, but they are actually a great medium for certain uses. Imagine a data logger on low powered system, or in a car, logging data from the car's engine, or in an airplane logging data, or in a low power laptop. There are many places where the unreliability of rotating media just makes them risky to use. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Heenan, Lambert Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 11:05 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Friday (weekend) fun: Erlang Early adopters form a line. Personally I don't need to spend over $3,399 on a 128 Gig drive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609259 Interesting that the spec provided quote data throughput but not access speeds. I think I'll wait until it gets down to a more realistic $40 or $50. :-) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136075 Lambert -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 8:01 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Friday (weekend) fun: Erlang <snip> On a more interesting note, Solid State Disks are finally here and readily available: http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=636&Tpk=solid+state +disk Yes, they are still expensive but even these prices are low compared to what was available and these prices are dropping rapidly as manufacturing picks up steam. Dell is now actually shipping laptops with a 64 gb solid state disk. We live in exciting times. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 7:45 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [AccessD] OT: Friday (weekend) fun: Erlang Hi all Everyone seems so busy, so here's something for a relaxing weekend. Predicting that in 2019 we will have the million core processor, you need to use a language capable of parallel processing. Erlang is one. And it is free and open-source: http://www.erlang.org Note chapter 3, Concurrent Programming, here: http://www.erlang.org/doc/getting_started/part_frame.html Also, a community exists: http://www.trapexit.org/ Have fun! /gustav -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com