Jim,
It's a double glut, too much size and too many drives.
I can't quiet agree with you there.. I have 17+ gigs online in my machine at home right now.. why well cause I have 95 and NT, CorelDraw 8, Office 7, Visual c++, Visual j++, visual basic, visual source safe, norton utils, mountains of source code, visual age for small talk (okay I could delete that one I suppose ;-) ), adobe everything, mountains of multi-media files.. in short I only have about 4 gigs free spread across the 2 OSes.. and although that may sound like a lot of space, my normal working project size is between 100-200MB when workign with AV stuff.. so it's not a lot of extra space.
So to get back to the point, I don't think the sizes are too big. I think there are too many low quality manufacturers out there. While I like fujitsu's price/performance ratio, they can't touch an IBM, Maxtor or QNTM for performance. That's why most major OEMs are using: IBM, Maxtor and QNTM and not fujitsu. Remeber it doesn't matter how much capacity Fujitsu has if the OEMs don't want their drives.
Steve |
