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To: FJB who wrote (19111)	5/25/2006 5:21:17 PM
From: CrazyPete	Respond to of 25522

I did say "apart from video", as this is about the only application I see for that much storage on a home PC. What do you think the current usage of DVR software on home computers is? I'd guess less than 10% but I really have no idea. The answer would have to be even lower for laptops. I think the hybrid flash/conventional drives are a good fit for home PCs. I don't know exactly how they'll be implemented but if I could partition one so that I had a flash partition for the OS and regular files, and only used the conventional drive for disposable stuff (multimedia or whatever), that would work out well performance-wise. For a laptop, what I'd like to see would be a flash drive on the motherboard, with a slot for a conventional IDE drive. Where your available configurations could include various drive sizes or none at all.