gwern comments on Supply, demand, and technological progress: how might the future unfold? Should we believe in runaway exponential growth? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 15 April 2014 05:04:40PM 2 points [-]

What's the point of a 1 TB USB flash drive?...For my notebook I like the fact that it has a silent SSD. But I need to use an external harddisk to store all my data and that is no SSD and therefore can make noise.

If you can have a 1TB USB flash drive, then presumably you can have a 1TB internal drive which will store all of your files. (As indeed I have at this moment; well worth the ~$550.)

Comment author: ChristianKl 15 April 2014 09:57:48PM 1 point [-]

Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that looking at the usefulness of a 1TB USB flash drive is not a useful way to look at incentives to develop better storage media.