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| Affiliate Review:2008: Another Slow Year for Hard Drives @ CoolTechZone.com 2008: Another Slow Year for Hard Drives @ CoolTechZone.com  | Quote: |  | | |  | Originally Posted by cooltechzone |  | | | | | | | | |
"We declared 2008 the year of Solid State Storage, but what about your
standard, run-of-the-mill hard drives? What's going to happen in that part
of the industry? In one word: nothing. That's right, the ever depressing
industry is going to relax with normal hard drives and focus their entire
attention on SSD units. It makes sense, but the price point on SSDs is not
going to be low enough for mainstream adoption, at least not this year.
For those of us who are going to stick with platter-based drives, we would
still like to see some innovation take place. No such luck, said the
companies we talked to at CES 2008." Full Story at cooltechzone  | |  | |  | | |
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