SSD Price Drops Signaling End of Spinning Media?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @05:46AM from the you-spun-me-baby dept.

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."

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STARE by DarkXale · 2010-03-23 12:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Thousands of geeks are currently watching you, apple reviewers. Can you feel our stare?