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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
It seems to me that with the rapid increase in the size and compactness of solid state storage devices that these will become pre-eminent in the future and displace all optical mechanical systems such as Blu_ray and DVD.
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I remember in the early 1990s someone prominent in the computer industry predicting that hard discs would be replaced by battery-backed RAM by the end of the decade, as at that time RAM prices per byte were dropping much more quickly than discs. But a couple of years later the HDD manufacturers really got their act together and they have never looked back.
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
As these are more prone to break down, you'd think that someone would have invented something that doesn't move by now!
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They have, but not for the same price.