Re: Computers - growth in drives but not memory



Richard Fangnail <richardfangnail@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Every year computers have more harddisk space but not that
much more memory. I just saw an ad for a computer with 160G
drive but 512M memory. Compared with three years ago, that
drive is way bigger but the memory is about the same.

Why is the disk size growing more than memory?

Essentially because thats the smallest single platter
drive readily available so they might as well use it.

Doesnt work like that with ram.


.



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