Re: How much do the parts for a thumb drive cost?

Jim - Are you sure you want to sell your Toshiba? It's a piece of history!

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Ted Zieglar
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Jim Macklin wrote:
I've seen 1 GB thumb drive for about $30, which means that production and shipping cost is probably below $3.
Flash memory may replace hard drives in laptops within a year or two, primarily to save power and increase speed. The cost of most things is more to do with initial design and production facilities and handling, than the raw materials and unit labor.
Twenty years ago I had a Toshiba T1000 laptop that had the OS in ROM and a virtual hard drive in RAM. It had no real hard drive and only a 720 Kb floppy. It was B&W CGA and an 80C16 CPU at 4.77 MHz and ran a version of DOS.

Anybody wants to buy it, it still runs but needs either an external monitor or a new LCD because it was damaged.



"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e$7xBM$7GHA.940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| You are paying for the people who have the necessary technology and the
| parts to put it together. Parts likely cost about $5.00
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| Richard Urban
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| If you knew as much as you think you know,
| You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
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| "Terry" <kilowatt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:1160871770.919463.306390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > Are the parts expensive or are we just paying for the technology?
| >
| > How soon are these going to replace hard drives?
| >
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