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SSD Won't Make Sense In Laptops For Two Years
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.'"
Going smaller generally requires compromises. Performance takes a backseat, because manufacturers design the drives primarily for lower power consumption and heat emission. Solid state drives have just been very expensive for much of their existence. Late last year 160GB SSDs sold for around $1,000. That number is far from affordable, but it was still half as expensive as it was more than a year ago. SSDs will continue to drop tremendously in price, but they are still out of reach for most of us.
The high cost may not perfectly suited to most mobile devices, but what if you have one of these low cost SSD drives? More reliable than a hard drive, at a fraction of the cost. Low cost SSDs will soon be so cheap, everyone will be able to have at least one. I already preorded two.
They have regular SSDs on the Macbook Air, and quite frankly, it's a rip off. Considering cost, I believe that this is the next big thing.
I hate black gangster bastards with their fat lips and shit colored faces. I wish they'd all stop trying to be something they're not. Niggers are closer to monkeys than white people. They belong either in a field picking cotton or in a zoo. And there's a sign that says, "Don't feed the nigger.. or give him drugs."
Ya know what else I hate? Indians.
I can't stand fat, drunk Native American bastards that take all our tax money and bitch that they're still being affected by their ancestors who died 200 years ago. "Boohoo, I'm 1/64 Chippawa and my great, great, great, great, great grandpa died of Small Pox because of you. Now give me $1000/month." Fuck no and fuck you. Whites won fair and square.
See, wars have winners and losers. White people went to war with Indians, and whites won. It's The United States of America now. Shut up and deal with it.
"Waa, boohoo, our heritage is being lost." Fuck that. Who gives a shit about heritage? Whites don't even care about their stupid heritage. It's all the same shit. Stop acting like you're special. You're a human like everybody else. A stupid, fat, lazy, primitive looking human, but a human none-the-less.
Ya know what else I hate? Gooks. Fucking chink bastards should be nuked.
Why couldn't the US have nuked Japan right off the map? I don't understand why they stopped at two cities. If you start a job, you might as well finish it.
Along the same lines, how come nobody stood up to take Hitler's place in eliminating the world of those whiney, greedy, kike bastards?
I hate every ethnicity. I think there should be a new Olympic sport where you put samples of every race into a field and they all get weapons and have to kill eachother. Then the the last team left standing wins a cheesy plastic medal, and then is quickly shot by riflemen and eaten by hungry white men with tobasco sauce and salsa.
Actually, what you said supported him exactly. He said he suspected it was a temporary issue. Turns out, on the re-test involving a drive that didn't exist on the initial test, it was shown to be a temporary issue. A flash drive beat every other drive in every metric except capacity.
So... he was right. You were right. Everyone can go to sleep happy.
Nobody cares, STFU.
Troll is fail for hating the wrong kind of Indians. THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!!!!
Relax faggot, nobody's going to force you.