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Flash Memory Won't Get Cheaper Any Time Soon

Posted by Soulskill on from the and-you'll-forget-to-send-in-the-rebate-anyway dept.

jfruh writes "Some melancholy news from the Hot Chips symposium last week: NAND memory, which powers the solid-state drives that have revolutionized storage, has broken the $1 per gigabyte barrier and isn't getting any cheaper. 'They will always be ten times the cost of a hard drive,' says analyst Jim Handy. There are newer technologies in development, but they won't be able to beat NAND on price for years."

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  1. Re:No! by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh first world problems.

    Yes, many of the stuff discussed here don't have much to do with feeding and housing poor people.

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  2. Not so much by tuppe666 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bitching about Mod points http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4144955&cid=44708261 "To the person that modded me down, I know my opinion is not a popular one. I'm open to debate. However, you should be using your mod points to bump up good comments and modding down off-topic or blatantly offensive messages, not opinions you disagree with. " that is a first world problem :)