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Laptop SSD Capacity To Remain Flat As NAND Flash Dearth Causes Prices To Rise (computerworld.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the steady-as-we-go dept.

Lucas123 writes from a report via Computerworld: Laptop manufacturers aren't likely to offer higher capacity standard SSDs in their machines this year as a shortage of NAND flash is pushing prices higher this year. At the same time, nearly half of all laptops shipped this year will have SSDs versus HDDs, according to a new report from DRAMeXchange. The contract prices for multi-level cell (MLC) SSDs supplied to the PC manufacturing industry for those laptops are projected to go up by 12% to 16% compared with the final quarter of 2016; prices of triple-level cell (TLC) SSDs are expected to rise by 10% to 16% sequentially. "The tight NAND flash supply and sharp price hikes for SSDs will likely discourage PC-[manufacturers] from raising storage capacity," said Alan Chen, a senior research manager of DRAMeXchange. "Therefore, the storage specifications for mainstream PC [...] SSDs are expected to remain in the 128GB and 256GB [range]."

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  1. Kids these days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    I had to load my FORTRAN programs from paper tape.

  2. Re:I'll stick with HDDs for now by Dunbal · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've had SSD's exclusively for 8 years now. No failures. Of course I never bought OCZ pieces of shit.

    When any hard drive fails you can lose everything immediately and all at once. That's why you have backups. You have backups, right?

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    Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
  3. The 11 ms barrier by tepples · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, today's 5400 RPM drives are not the same as yesterday's. Increased density makes them much faster than they used to be

    An increase in density increases throughput, not latency. It still takes the same amount of time (up to 60000÷5400 = 11 ms) to spin a particular sector toward the head, plus however long it took the head to move to the appropriate cylinder.

  4. Re:I'll stick with HDDs for now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    The other AC was saying there's something wrong with the house's power lines, not each individual computer's power supply. A house can have poor quality wiring or lots of noise on the line. I'm not really sure how you get line noise, but from my experience from using devices that communicate through the power sockets, you can certainly have sockets in a house that are worse than others.