SSD Price Drops Signaling End of Spinning Media?

gjt writes "When Intel and OCZ recently announced new 'affordable' Solid State Disk drives — offering a meager 32-40GB — we initially yawned. But, then we took a closer look at the press releases and the in-progress research and development in SSD technology and opened our eyes. While the new drives aren't affordable on a cost per gigabyte basis for everyone, it does set a precedent — and most importantly a barometer price of $100. And it really does start the death clock for hard drive technology."

Comments

Re:In 5 years

[Yvan256]

If you get rid of the fans, there won't be any funny/troll posts about Microsoft, Apple and Linux.

Re:This just in!

[Spazntwich]

Dammit man, I'm a slashdot troll, not a market researcher!

Re:In 5 years

[K. S. Kyosuke]

On the other hand, you only need to install Windows ME, and you promptly get a fanless system.

Re:...Or an arms race

[Anonymous Coward]

A lot of things can change in 10 years. Just think back to the year 2000: computers only ran at 2-3 GHz and Linux was just getting into the mainstream!