Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] SSD = Solid State Drive

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Jonathan King wrote:

> So I just noticed that 32GB SSDs are now down to about $400, which is 
> almost down to $12 per GB, compared to maybe $1 per GB for an ordinary 
> notebook HD. Somebody also just announced a 256GB SSD, but I don't know 
> the price. Based on the price of 2 GB units, the 32 GB units could fall 
> in price by 30% or more pretty quickly, but it could presumably take 
> another year or three before they dominate standard HDs in notebook 
> situations (being both cheaper and better).


Interesting.  Not many years ago you would have been delighted to pay $400 
for a 32GB HDD and it would have seemed enormous.  Times have changed.

So now the big issue is failure/error rates for the SSD.  It might be 
better than standard magnetic HDD for all I know, but I don't really know 
and I'm going to wait until everyone who knows anything about it is saying 
that the SSD is very safe and reliable.  I'm just mentioning this because 
there must be a lot of people who feel the same as I do and who will 
therefore hesitate to buy an SSD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_state_disk

Mike

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