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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:10X my white and flabby ass by TWiTfan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but Newegg will probably have it for $27K.

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  2. Re:No! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh goodie! It's the "Africa exists therefore you can't be dissatisfied with anything ever" argument.

  3. BARRIER!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    has broken the $1 per gigabyte barrier

    It isn't a barrier. $1 is a COMPLETELY arbitrary value. Examples of real barriers are the sound barrier or the clock speed vs. power barrier (region) of silicon. A monetary barrier between low and middle class would be being able to pay for a new car with cash.

    There has to be a solid justification to call it such. Otherwise, I could jump up and down SCREAMING that we have just crossed the 98 cent barrier.

    A dollar a gig, cool! But no one crossed a real BARRIER.

    captcha: barrier