Is SSD Density About To Hit a Wall?

Zombie Puggle writes "Enterprise Storage Forum has an article contending that solid state disks will stay stuck at 20-25nm unless the materials and techniques used to design Flash drives changes, and soon. 'Anything smaller and the data protection and data corruption issues become so great that either the performance is abysmal, the data retention period doesn't meet JEDEC standards, or the cost increases. Though engineers are working on performance and density improvements via new technologies (they're also trying to drive costs down), these are fairly new techniques and are not likely to make it into devices for a while."

Comments

Re:The wall, and the end of the world.

[durrr]

Well obviously the earth will be fried when the sun goes red giant. However I'm quite certain though that the year 5 billion AD equivalent of a electronics engineers will sit in jovian orbit, hellbent on the continuation of moores law and waiting for the sun to turn white dwarf so they can get to work with their new fancy sub-nm electron-degenerate matter lithography techniques.

They'll wake you up from cryo when they're done just to taunt you: "Oh, we're having a few billion years between the nodes now, but it fits the curve, just as i told you."

Re:Or more likely PCM

[owlstead]

Yeah, they like to push the P-RAM a lot.

Re:Or more likely PCM

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

came away quite convinced, and a lot drunk

I think you'll find that's not quite so good an argument in favor of the technology once you've sobered up.

Flash drives are dead anyway

[mr_lizard13]

HTML5 drives are the future.