Although it expected to benefit from falling hard disk prices as suppliers recovered from last year's Thai floods, it warned that the savings would be offset by higher memory and display costs.
Post-flood, many of the factories that made these drives were ruined, which led directly to hard drive disk prices almost doubling across the world.
Pure Storage, a company that has pioneered a way to deliver solid state disk performance for a mechanical disk price, announced today it has received $225 million in Series F venture funding at a valuation of $3 billion.
In fact, they both have a similar story and they both claim to give you flash storage at a mechanical disk price, and I suspect they both do in different ways.
With disk drive prices dropping, the Crowns no longer had an edge in this narrow market.
a There are, of course, many alternative cloud storage solutions and it is hard to tell "typical" fees for storage and transfer, as opposed to retail disk media prices which can be monitored rather easily.
Seagate has struggled as disk-drive prices have fallen.
The IBM 5150, with its 16k of RAM (barely enough for one Word document), no hard disk and price tag of just over $1,500 (then about £830), was one of the first indications of a worldwide computing revolution, along with the Commodore PET, Apple II and Atari 800.
So at any given point there exists a range of storage capacities where flash, despite being much more expensive per gigabyte, can compete with hard disks on price.
The specs are all over the place, from 12- to 13-inches on the screen, to inclusion or deletion of the optical disk drive, and prices anywhere from $1500 to $1900.
Add in a new processor, and perhaps a bigger hard disk, and the price of beefing up an average PC to run Windows 95 properly nears $1,000.
