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RE: Do components have their own sound?

No, it's not pure marketing. Pure marketing might be necessary to collect that extra $1,000. If you were not able to collect this money, then your business might have to close its doors when you ran out of money. All of this becomes crystal clear if one is responsible for the business model for a product and has P/L responsibility. It will not be clear if one hasn't had this personal experience.

More specifically, that 1 TB SSD costs several times more than a 1 TB HD. Both store the same information. If there were no other funcational differences, or perceived functional differences, between these two devices then it would require extremely skillful marketing to persuade customers that there was a difference in value to be had for having the more expensive device.

Personally, I have a couple of computers that boot and run off of SSDs, but the largest has only 500 GB of SSD and is used to run a web server and a database server. All of my audio files reside on spinning rust, but this rust doesn't have to spin when I am listening to music as I operate purely out of RAM memory. In a few years, the economics may switch, but this is what makes sense to me just now, as I am not prepared to store multiple TB of music files on solid state disks, which have only recently appeared to have credible reliability, among other reasons.






Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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