Dave Jones wrote:
Well, 20 gb of flash memory is just a few components on a quite small PCB. The components shouldn't be expensive to mass produce, assemble, package and then ship -- especially compared to a 20 Gb, 3.5" hard drive.On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 11:53:28PM -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> I'd like to get a 20 Gb flash drive for no more than USD $20.00 which works > out to 0.000976562 cents per megabyte. Now on 20 Gb, I can do some serious > stuff.
I think it's safe to say that you'll be waiting quite a while for prices to reach *that* low. 20GB of regular memory is going to be silly prices for some time to come unless some technological breakthrough occurs, flash memory moreso.
Even 1GB DIMMs are only just starting to get affordable. The most affordable 'large' USB key I've seen so far was 1GB for ~$59.
Dave
You are still right, I'll have to wait till I see gray hair coming out of my chest before flash prices become reasonable. Hard drive prices have been high for years and I think there is at least some type of price fixing going on to keep those prices high.
Bob
