- When will we see a 500GB solid state storage device ?
- Posted by Jerry G. on February 5th, 2008
There are solid state drives in the many GB's. These are primarily
being used in the aerospace, military, and broadcast businesses. They
are used in equipment that must operate under rough conditions. The cost
is much too high for the average user or average business. Eventually
this will change.
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Jerry G.
"fruitbat" <yesharry@noreply.com> wrote in message
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Hard disc technology is improving all the time. Greater speed and
capacity
is zooming along.
But why? Hard discs are noisy, power hungry mechanical devices.
Solid state USB sticks, SD cards and so on show the way for silent,
non-mechanical storage.
When will we see a 500GB solid state storage device that is cheap and
reliable?
- Posted by fruitbat on February 6th, 2008
Hard disc technology is improving all the time. Greater speed and capacity
is zooming along.
But why? Hard discs are noisy, power hungry mechanical devices.
Solid state USB sticks, SD cards and so on show the way for silent,
non-mechanical storage.
When will we see a 500GB solid state storage device that is cheap and
reliable?
- Posted by Paul on February 6th, 2008
fruitbat wrote:
If you think about the technical challenges, of moving to flash,
you won't be in quite such a rush. The cost per megabyte has to
come down significantly, before you'll be happy with your "silent"
solution.
There is an example here, of a 32GB Mtron SSD, equipped with wear
leveling so it can be used as your boot drive. In the user feedback
section of that article, the price of $1200 is mentioned. If the
drive was 16x larger, the price would be $19200.
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=3167&p=1
The flash is already using a pretty aggressive silicon technology,
so a silicon die shrink is not going to make a dent in the price.
There are people toying with the idea of extending the MLC concept,
but MLC has compromises in terms of the number of write cycles
it can sustain, even with wear leveling.
To get that $19200 price, down to $200, is going to take a while.
Maybe even an alternative technology to flash will be required.
Paul
- Posted by roadriderob on February 6th, 2008
On Feb 6, 3:26 am, "fruitbat" <yesha...@noreply.com> wrote:
A cheap 500GB solid state drive - 2015 ?
