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SSD Won't Make Sense In Laptops For Two Years

Posted by timothy on from the no-not-that-avi-cohen dept.

kgagne writes "While solid state disk drives can vastly improve random read performance and are perfectly suited to most mobile devices, many operations are sequential in laptops and desktops and involve writes where SSDs most often lose to magnetic hard disk drives in performance. While introducing multi-channel flash memory controllers and interleaving the NAND flash chips increases performance, it will still be about two years before the cost versus benefit ratio will make sense to install SSD in your laptop or desktop PC, according to a Computerworld story. '"I think you need to get to 128GB for around $200, and that's going to happen around 2010. Also, the industry needs to effectively communicate why consumers or enterprise users should pay more for less storage," says Joseph Unsworth, an analyst at Gartner Inc.'"

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  5. Re:120GB is too much. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    with their damned hair that sticks straight up, and their fake little smiles.

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  6. Re:120GB is too much. by killmofasta · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You have the gift of some various and sickening psychological problems. Get help immediatly.

  7. Re:120GB is too much. by thompson.ash · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Thing that gets me is anyone that says all this...

    Never leaves a name.

    Way to go big man. You're such hot-shit and you're so high and mighty, take responsibilty for your words.

    If you're too scared to be held accountable for your comments, don't make them, and don't clog up the internet with your mindless drivvel.

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    I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was going blame you for it!