From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: export SSD/non-rotational queue flag through sysfs Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:37:36 +0900 Message-ID: <496ECBA0.60209@gmail.com> References: <200901051952.58029.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20090105185428.GS32491@kernel.dk> <20090106073515.GY32491@kernel.dk> <4964866D.8010503@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <1231342473.3282.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.172]:9012 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753417AbZAOFhp (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:37:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1231342473.3282.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Michael Tokarev , Jens Axboe , Kay Sievers , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox Hello, James Bottomley wrote: > I'm afraid that's pretty much marketing coolaid. Rotational storage > will dominate for the forseeable future: just do a simple back of the > envelope calculation: Or just compare prices per byte of memory, flash and rotation disk. They haven't had changed too much during last several years. Secondary storage which is only slightly cheaper than the primary storage doesn't have much chance of flying high and far. Thanks. -- tejun