SSDs inch toward the desktop

[gilbertrom]

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There's been a steady flood of news about the emergence of solid state drive (SSD) systems in mainstream products. Samsung has a 64GB miniSATA SSD about half the size of a business card; Dell offers its Adamo XPS notebook with a 256GB SSD; Teradata delivers a data warehouse appliance packed with SSD storage, and IBM has begun to use SSDs in its storage area network systems.

All that and more in just a week. If you just read press releases and headlines about storage systems, you might think SSDs were the mainstream technology and that nothing else mattered.



Compared to dumpy old Winchester technology-based hard drives, SSDs are sexy. That's primarily because they have the advantage of being fast, up to 250MB/sec for reads, in some cases. There's no mechanical device scrambling around reading and writing data, so information just pages into memory in the blink of an eye. As such, SSDs are also silent.

In addition, prices for SSDs are also coming down to earth. Sort of. Crucial sells a 256GB SSD for $779 and Intel offers a 160GB device at $649. But they have a long way to go before they reach traditional hard disk drive prices. You can pick up a 1 terabyte LaCie drive for as low as $135.

So, you need a good reason to justify spending more than 5x the money to get a quarter of the storage capacity.

And speed is that reason, say the SSD advocates.

Full story: TG Daily

[hawkeye294]

nice sad ang SSD kay maski matagak di daun maguba murag flashdrive.. hehe

but SSD's way too pricey...

[whoopz]

dili pa gyapon affordable. but time will come nga within reach na unya mga price ani.

[hawkeye294]

dili pa gyapon affordable. but time will come nga within reach na unya mga price ani.

and by that time naa na newer and better technology to replace it.. hehe

[whoopz]

and by that time naa na newer and better technology to replace it.. hehe

korek. mao nga ako, i always buy second best ky reasonable na ang price, ang top of the line is almost always unreachable sa ordinary people. maka gu-ol if mag tigum ka palit ka hi-end dayun after a few months naa mugawas nga barato ra lupigan imo hi-end.

[limes]

@hawkeye294 sakto jud ka bro pero di sad kaau dali ma hitabo sa mga tao na di maka hulat awh kamo na dive sa upgrade.
@whoopz same ta bro usahay pa gani 3rd best pero sa mga other stuffs lang na di kaau important.

[bha-iegz]

ang SSD kay gamay raba na cguro cya so gamay nlang diay mga desktop ana in the future if gamit na SSD?

[vern]

Inch? I've had an SSD on my desktop for a while now.

[coolnezz]

[limes]

maximized mang ang mga ssd sa mga notebooks, laptops lastly sa desktops i guess kay mahal ra kaau siya para ma achieve ang nindut. like raid etc and capacities sad diay mahal kaau.