Toshiba, Micron, Sun, and their crazy SSDs

[evilbix]

http://www.trustedreviews.com/...ightening-Quick-SSD/p1

http://www.micron.com/about/ne...px?id=5F432D92EFA2B68E


With all these crazy jumps in SSD technology, is the end of platter based drives on the horizon? I know prices are still out of this world, but this technology is growing so damned fast it's amazing.

 

[Denithor]

As one of the comments said, all we need now is for these drives to become cheap enough for common people to afford them and SSD technology will hit mainstream so fast it'll blindside the traditional hdd makers.

 

[Rubycon]

Good things come to those who wait...

That said wait states (who remembers when that term was widely tossed around in computer lingo?) are always a bad thing!

Give me my 3GB/S 10TB SSD array yesterday!

 

[SickBeast]

There's still a ways to go before these SSD drives are cheaper than traditional drives on a per gigabyte basis.

Right now they seem to be a better value than 15k SCSI drives, and perhaps even the Velociraptors.

I'm tempted to get one of the 30gb ones to boot up my operating systems. They're less than $100, and I don't need high-performance for my archival stuff like images and music.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

right now we are paying for them to make the technology in these drives faster, the way i see it is it's gotta be less expensive in materials alone compared to a traditional platter drive

 

[Denithor]

I'm not even worried about SSD drives being priced cheaper than traditional drives, just reasonable pricing period. For me $500 for 80GB is not reasonable.

When they match high performance traditional drives ($200/300GB VR comes to mind) I'll bite. Until then, meh.

 

[California Roll]

I've been so tempted to jump in on some of the Vraptor deals lately (wonder why prices are dropping like a rock...) but I'm holding out for SSD. I'm taking the plunge when it hits around $1 per GB. I'll happily pay $200 or so for a 200GB OS drive.