Buy an SSD now, or wait?

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2011-12-24 at 00:07 +0900, 夜神　岩男 wrote:

> The plants aren't destroyed, just mushy and dirty. I just happened to be 
> there the other day. Wet, yes, but for the most part everything is 
> intact and accounted for. Anyway, the goings on didn't stop a bunch of 
> Thaksinites from getting all crazy near Lumpini and having a rally while 
> I was there -- and having been around the place more than a little over 
> the last decade I'd say that's a healthy indication that there is plenty 
> of (local, at least) motivation to get back on track making money again.
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not disputing your characterization but aren't hard drives manufactured
inside 'clean rooms' where even small bits of dust are endemic?
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> The market will change eventually, but it is extremely early in the game 
> to be proclaiming the actual end of spinning disk media. We're more than 
> a few years away from that, so the factories will get cleaned and put 
> back into operation as soon as possible. I didn't make it all the way to 
> see how things are in Ayutthaya, but my friends tell me folks had 
> already barriered, bildged and were cleaning some places around there.
> 
> Pictures of water look really neat in media, I think. The reality is 
> nearly everybody is finding a way around the mess to carry on with life 
> (the busses are even still running, though it looks comical somtimes in 
> 50cm of water, but that's not *everywhere*, actually). Farmers will have 
> a bumper crop next year, in any event...
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very often floods leave toxins and move topsoil and the short term
effects of floods on farmland is not ever really predictable.

Craig


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