According the Crisman TFI head is $8 and a MR head is $11.
Given that, doesn't it make sense for boxmakers to continue to buy the cheaper TFI drives to put in their PCs.
The PC buying public is right now interested in reasonable capacity for their current needs. Until other media aproach the access times of a hard disk, the need will continue to exist for them. Until efficiencies and costs of MR surpass TFI, it will also survive.
What I don't understand is why are most hard disks these days are the screwed in, gotta take your PC apart to get to, noisy things that they are. I would think that the same drives could be easily converted to removable styles.
As far as dropping disk drive prices are concerned, how much were you paying less than a decade ago for all the components in a PC. I remember paying about $1,000 for 100MB. And ten years ago, who was thinking that people would need more than that to store all their data.
I have 8GB on my home PC now, and could use more as access speeds increase, input methods (scanning, voice recognition, etc) become more popular, and the ability to search through reams of data becomes facilitated.
I am not denying problems for the entire DD sector. The biggest problem is the irrational market is exactly that, and that an overreaction in one direction is not always followed by an overreaction the other way.
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