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Comment Re:Make them cheaper, not smaller (Score 1) 222

A couple of 7200 RPM raided will provide nearly the nearly same performance for a much lower cost.

If you're talking big sequential transfers, sure. If you're talking random access, you're not even close.

I substituted an an Intel X-25M G2 80g SSD for a 10k RPM Raptor as my main OS drive. It cost me exactly $244.10 at the time and was easily the best performance/$ upgrade I've ever done.

Comment Re:Wait, What? (Score 1) 282

Transmitting a message encoded with a proprietary codec could be considered an inducement to buy the products that contain the codec IC (from what I've read, the only way of decoding these messages) and may therefore be considered a de facto commercial message.

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