Re: Hard drive gets no power


<cuhulin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Some day, all mechanical hard drives will be replaced with solid state
drives.They are showing up already in some computers.
cuhulin



They've been around for decades, but capacity and cost per unit of storage
still lag substantially behind that of magnetic discs, so it'll be a while
yet before conventional hard drives go away.


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