From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream...
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:21:12 +0000
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On Wednesday 01 February 2006 17:51, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
> So just what kind of price trend are you looking at that will let you
> get ram cheaper than disk space any time soon?  There has never been
> such a trend yet as far as I know.  Maybe you have better data than me.
> My experience shows the other direction.  Both memory and disk space are
> much cheaper than they used to be, but the disk space has reduced in
> price much faster than memory.
>

I cannot disagree with the obvious trend to date, but rather than argue the 
many reasons why ram prices are artificially high right now, instead just 
grab a stick of ram in your left hand, and the heavy lump of precision 
engineered metal that is a hard drive in your right, and see if you can 
convince yourself that the one on the right will still be ahead of the curve 
in another 14 years.

Maybe it will. Drop me a mail in 2020 and I'll shout you dinner if you're 
right ;)

Andrew
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