SSD: Whats in the future?
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ricanflow
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can we predict the future??
I know i cant. I dont think it will be very long at all.
I know i cant. I dont think it will be very long at all.
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Yeh thats what they are saying. Most likely it will find its way into laptops a bit earlier because of the small size and decreased power consumption. What will take longer is the capasity of them to take over current HDDs. At the moment i think the limit is around 128GBs. I would say earliest maybe 5 years for it to be 'standard'.
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Ok well, i thought you were considering things that were consumer products and standards... not SCSI server equipment you could 'probably be able to buy a car with' instead...
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I won't buy one til I can get a 32gb drive for like 40 quid....which won't be for a year or 2 at least.
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Gurusan look at scan from time to time they have had some crazy prices on SSD's in the past month or two. I am considering getting a 128gb for around 80 quid for my macbook (that things traveled with me everyware since i got it) an i am worried about the normal drive getting knocked an then i am stuffed for a laptop till i get home (I have about 30 SATA hard drives knocking about the place).
But I think it will be around 5+ years before we see SSD's becoming a standard option on laptops from places like Dell, but desktops I think it will be another 8 years tops before we see SSD's getting touted as a selling point on TV adds, Servers in some places I know already have SSD's mostly deployed in places with a lot of money banks, accountants, etc. The only thing that i think that is holding them back is the data recovery aspect if it dies you can prity much forget getting data off it, the price is a non issue for some places but the general consumor has no idea whats in a normal hard drive its only now that hard drives are getting moved around more an more with more people having laptops that companines are throwing money into them.
But I think it will be around 5+ years before we see SSD's becoming a standard option on laptops from places like Dell, but desktops I think it will be another 8 years tops before we see SSD's getting touted as a selling point on TV adds, Servers in some places I know already have SSD's mostly deployed in places with a lot of money banks, accountants, etc. The only thing that i think that is holding them back is the data recovery aspect if it dies you can prity much forget getting data off it, the price is a non issue for some places but the general consumor has no idea whats in a normal hard drive its only now that hard drives are getting moved around more an more with more people having laptops that companines are throwing money into them.
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How cheap? Cheapest I see is the OCZ 32gb drive and thats well over 100 quid
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