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The Five-Minute Rule 20 Years Later

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Illustration by Rafael Ricoy

Revisiting Gray and Putzolu's famous rule in the age of Flash.

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Appreciate the conservative estimate for SSDs, but $999 for a 32GB SSD ($31/GB) is verging on an order of magnitude out of date:

Here's a low-end intel: $314 for an 80GB SSD ($4/GB).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167005

Would be great if you could update your figures/calculations with this in mind. Exciting analysis!
cheers,
Nat Wharton
UC Berkeley Graduate Student

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