Will 2009 Be the Turning Point For SSDs?

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 12, 2008 @10:09PM from the year-of-something-on-the-something dept.

Iddo Genuth writes "Since first entering the consumer market about two years ago, solid state drives (SSDs) have improved significantly. While prices remain substantially higher than conventional magnetic storage, it is predicted that in 2009 SSDs will finally make an impact on both the consumer and business markets bringing blazing fast speeds at reasonable prices for the first time — will it finally happen?" It seems likely, as Samsung began mass-producing both 128GB and 256GB SSDs this year. Intel and Micron have also posted recent breakthroughs which will help to bring the technology into the mainstream.

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Not this year either by Anonymous Coward · 2008-12-12 22:34 · Score: 5, Funny

No no no, people have too big an investment in Windows to switch over to Linu.... what? SSD? Sorry, carry on...
Re:I think SSD will take off by thetoadwarrior · 2008-12-12 22:51 · Score: 5, Funny

There's no reason to have Vista on any computer.