On 6/15/2014 1:23 AM, Warren Young wrote: > I assume we’re climbing out of the doubling doldrums brought on by the Taiwan floods by now. The floods that knocked out WDC were in Thailand, not Taiwan. and I do believe the spinning media industry is running into physics and much further progress at doubling areal density past the 6GB per 3.5" drive level will be harder and less reliable. Meanwhile price::capacity in SSD/flash is linear -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast