[Arny Krueger]

"mcp6453" wrote in message


It would be
great to be able to use an SD card once and then file it.
At this price, it's totally possible.

Today I should receive a Ikey RM3 rack mount digital recorder.

It records a balanced line input to USB flash drives or SD cards.

My intent is to use it as the backup drive for this year's band/choir
festival season. The Microtrack is set aside except for truely portable
gigs like video shoots.

Currently, local stores are selling 8 GB flash drives for $14.95.

Hopefully memory
prices will continue to decline as SSDs become more
prevalent.

Figure on the cost per gig to fall by 50% every 12-18 months until the price
of the media is dominated by the packaging that keeps it usuable by human
fingers. Moore's law applies. Right now we're watching flash pricing fall
from $2 per GB to more like $1. Tune in next holiday season...

I can't wait for the day that I never again
have to deal with a hard drive.

We're a long ways from that in general. Flash drives are laggards in
comparison to the sustained DTR of commodity hard drives.

SSDs can have problems of
their own, but in the long run, they should be
dramatically cheaper to manufacture that hard drives are.

So it seems. If you consider that every flash drive also has some kind of a
complex controller CPU that front-ends the media and conceals much of its
inherent nastiness...