When the biggest solid state drives seen in laptops seem to be 32GB (Sony, Fujitsu, Dell etc) it comes as a pleasant surprise to see 256GB SSD modules on the market.
Mind you, the 256GB SSD from SimpleTech apparently costs $10,000, according to TrustedReviews on which says that PQI also has a 256GB SSD available for sale at an unnamed price.
Clearly the whole thing is way beyond what anyone except an ultra early adopter is willing to pay, but at least it's being done and, once done, it should shame the laptop manufacturers into giving up trying to charge an excessive premium for a paltry 32Gbit (which they're doing at the moment).
According to Innovision, 128GB SSDs will cost under $1000 before the end of this year.
And with SanDisk announcing they'll have 64Mbyte SSD modules in mass production by the end of the year, though no price is being mentioned, then it seems that SSDs are now
on the learning curve, and will be affordable eventually.
I feel a bit of a fool now for paying over a hundred quid for a 1GB USB dongle some years ago. Now I've been given several. I see 2GB dongles are on sale for under fifteen quid.
Hopefully we can all look forward to getting an SSD laptop with over 100GB of SSD for under $2,000 by the end of the decade..
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By way of an experiment, I strapped a lump of radioactive rock (autunite - a uranium ore) to a Samsung 32GB SSD - performance fell by around 20 percent, although there were no reported errors.
Not that anyone's going to be using these things in uranium mines any time soon, but a couple of spins further down Alice's architecturally shrinking rabbit hole and I reckon we're going to have problems.
Rupert
Posted by Rupert Goodwins | June 14, 2007 12:07 PM
Posted on June 14, 2007 12:07