Re: Arrrrrrrrrrrrggggg!!

From: Randall Hyde (randyhyde_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 03/02/05


Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 06:12:27 GMT


>
> I don't know anything about this product, but it looks like it is
> presented as a 40GB flash memory... For about $269.00.
> http://www.freecom.com/ecProduct_detail.asp?ID=1142

It's a hard drive.

>
> The end of mechanical hard drives coming soon?

Hard drives are much faster than flash.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde



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