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| The price per megabyte of disk storage has
been decreasing at about 40% per year based on improvements
in data density, -- even faster than the price decline for flash
memory chips. Recent trends in HDD price per megabyte show an
even steeper reduction, 50% per year, making magnetic disk drives
even more attractive as a storage technology. When considering
the continuing price decline of DRAM and Flash memory chips,
it is at least 10X cheaper to store information with magnetic
hard disk drives when compared with semiconductor memories.
This lower price per megabyte of storage also make the 1 inch
Microdrive a competitive alternative to flash in digital cameras
as well as other consumer based applications. |
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