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Will 2009 Be the Turning Point For SSDs?

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Re:I think SSD will take off by Entropy98 · · Score: 5, Informative

    300 GB disk drive - I spent $90.

    256 GB solid state - $7,426 to $9,125 online

    Ouch.

    This is why Nintendo 64 and Nintendo DS cartridges never grew larger than 0.3 gigabytes, and why for the Cube and Wii they abandoned the solid state cartridge in favor of discs.

    Nintendo cartridges were ROM chips. I don't think they have much relation to SSDs.
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  2. Re:I think SSD will take off by Mostly+a+lurker · · Score: 5, Informative

    256 GB solid state - $7,426 to $9,125 online

    When were you looking? I do not dispute that SSDs cost more than regular HDDs, but your quoted prices are way too high. For instance, the OCZ 250GB SSD costs US$699 (less than a tenth of your lowest price)

  3. Re:I think SSD will take off by rolfwind · · Score: 4, Informative

    300 GB disk drive - I spent $90.

    256 GB solid state - $7,426 to $9,125 online

    That's unfair for two reasons:

    -hard drives grew like crazy earlier this decade, but that growth has dramatically slowed lately, with 750GB being the largest in 2006, 1TB early in 2007, and 1.5 late in 2008

    -looking up 256GB solid state disks now is like looking for 2TB regular drives, if you find any, they'll be crazy expensive as they aren't mass produced yet

    -that said, on pricewatch, a 64GB and 128GB ssd is going for $136 and $328 respectively. Not so bad, eh? I suspect SSDs will take over within 5 years on notebooks and spinning platters will become more as a archive

  4. Re:Will we see the return of Stacker? by gabebear · · Score: 5, Informative

    Disk doublers were much more effective in the 1990s because a lower percentage of the data was already compressed. Disk doublers will do little but add overhead if you are storing movies, music, and pictures. Even some executable code is stored with compression now (JARs come to mind).

  5. Re:I think SSD will take off by jbolden · · Score: 4, Informative

    You want to think about this exponentially not linearly. Take logs and look at the trends.