$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft

Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft by dragontamer on Saturday September 01, 2018 @12:32PM (#17892599)

I think that's more of a sign that most people don't need more than 4GB to 8GB of RAM, and that storage isn't about TB anymore but about speed (HDD vs SSD).

SSDs are roughly 100x faster than HDDs, so they're superior despite offering less TB. Unless you're a gamer constantly downloading new 50GB games, most people are fine with ~300GB of storage.

People want faster storage, as opposed to more storage.

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Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft by londons_explore on Saturday September 01, 2018 @12:54PM (#17892715)

I want both.

I want 2TB of space and the speed of an SSD, and I don't want to pay much.

Hybrid hard drives seemed like the perfect solution (a few GB of flash, combined with a 2TB drive).

Sadly, nobody managed to get decent performance on hybrid drives. As far as I'm aware, none really had a good grasp of the filesystem, so none could make decisions like 'these small dll files will likley need low latency reads, stick them in the flash, while these massive mp4 files will probably be streamed, leave them on the hd'.

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Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft by Const-me on Saturday September 01, 2018 @04:18PM (#17893728)

Good hybrid drives are possible on higher levels of the stack, e.g. http://www.enmotus.com/fuzedrive

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Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft by scarface74 on Saturday September 01, 2018 @05:57PM (#17894095)

Well. Apple will sell you a MacBook with 2TB SSD for $3700 or 4TB for $5700....

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