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- nblilie, on 12/03/2008, -0/+41Let's see ...
SSD sales = 3.2 million for the year
HDD sales = 149.4 million for the QUARTER
Yep, looks like hard drives are dead. - mwalker05, on 12/03/2008, -1/+32lets see. conventional hard drives are up to 2TB for $200
SSD are up to 128GB for $200
i think ill stick with what i've got - rockon4life45, on 12/03/2008, -6/+37yay for the advancement of technology
- InorganicMatter, on 12/03/2008, -3/+28Nice, but I won't be using an SSD if the prices stay this high. Killing off an old cheap technology so you can push a new expensive one is NOT cool.
- robinthehood, on 12/03/2008, -4/+25anyone else sick to ***** of this "iCompany" circlejerk that's been going on since the iMac came out?
- inajeep, on 12/03/2008, -6/+24Yay for analysts guessing a lot trying to drive the new technology.
- jturbo, on 12/03/2008, -1/+17Good. More sales = more affordable in the future.
- manjar, on 12/03/2008, -0/+16SSD sales blaze ahead from almost nothing to !!!!SIX TIMES!!!! almost nothing.
- trer, on 12/03/2008, -5/+17I can't wait for Isolinear chips!
- FredFredrickson, on 12/03/2008, -0/+11SSD cheaper and larger than HDD in a year? I'd be willing to put a large sum of money down that says this ain't gonna happen.
- techdever, on 12/03/2008, -2/+12Condom Sales Slump, STDs Skyrocketing
- 2Bnor2B, on 12/03/2008, -2/+11I, for one, welcome our new SSD overlords!
{Ok, I had to do it. Never did it before but just had to do it. Anyway, its out of my system now. Thanks for your understanding.} - inactive, on 12/03/2008, -0/+9yay for older technology becoming extra cheap!
- nesagwa, on 12/03/2008, -1/+10What is this, 2001?
Where is the 1tb SSD? - quomen, on 12/03/2008, -1/+10We? How's it like coming out of a SSD's vagina?
- ProKid, on 12/03/2008, -0/+8Hopefully this will lead to cheaper SSD's
- jturbo, on 12/03/2008, -1/+8Hey, you're the one getting a Solid State Dick from this article....
In Japan you can marry robots, why not SSDs - cecilpl, on 12/03/2008, -1/+8Yes, it was quite a problem 10 years ago. But with chip-level wear-leveling and the increase in write capacity this is no longer an issue.
Any current off-the shelf SSD will have an expected lifespan longer than a drive made of rapidly spinning discs of metal. - inactive, on 12/03/2008, -0/+7My posture slumps, scoliosis skyrocketing
- Genma, on 12/03/2008, -1/+7sounds like ***** to me, ssd is still like what, at least 10x the cost of conventional hd space per gigabyte?
hdd = ~ $0.25/GB
ssd = ~ $3.00/GB - rolf, on 12/03/2008, -0/+6Only the marketplace can kill off the technology, not this single company.
And flash is getting much bigger much faster and hence cheaper as well. 2 years ago, I bought a 1GB micro cruzer at walmart for about $50. Now at Walmart, an 8GB is $40 and a 16GB is $67. I would estimate that is about a 10x improvement in 24 months.
OTOH, IIRC, the biggest harddrive was 750GB back then. In 2007, it was 1GB. And now it's 1.5GB. Only a 2x improvement in capacity in 2 years:(
Harddrive capacity increases skyrocketed earlier this decade but it's being slow as hell lately. Flash otoh is catching up nicely. If it keeps pace, in 24 months, we'll probably be toting 128GB USB sticks. - inactive, on 12/03/2008, -0/+6He had no mention of him being in office. RTFC.
- SteeleJK, on 12/03/2008, -0/+5HDD 1000GB = $105 (1 HDD)
SSD 1000GB = $2,106 (about 8 SSDs)
The only way to make sure your data is safe is redundancy because ALL drives have a potential to fail. Lifespan really isn't a factor in this. It is only a matter of price when it comes to replacing redundant drives. So if you want to make absolutely sure your 1TB of data is safe it would cost you $210 with HDDs and a whopping $4212 with SDDs. This isn't even taking into account that having 16 SDDs in your computer is completely impractical. And RAID is free as far as I know. *All price data collected from newegg.com - HappyScrappy, on 12/03/2008, -1/+6SSD sales are still peanuts next to hard drives. In fact, they're not even high enough to be peanuts.
Maybe in 2010 SSDs will start to make real headway.
I know I'd love to have one, but they are too expensive and too small at the moment. - robinthehood, on 12/03/2008, -0/+5um... iMac was released years before the iPod...
iMac - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac original release August 15, 1998
iPod - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipod original release October 23, 2001 - Seth024, on 12/03/2008, -2/+7Already 128 GB for $200. A half year ago, it was half that capacity and 3 times that price. We'll surpass the HDD in about 1 year.
- flyingclutchman, on 12/03/2008, -0/+5Funny thing is your comment would have like +200 diggs if it was before the election
- moktail, on 12/03/2008, -3/+8Don't SSD's have limited writes? Like 100,000 or so? My Digital Logic professor has told the class to beware SSD's because of their shorter lifespan compared to hard disk drives.
- twiztidsinz, on 12/03/2008, -0/+4Yes, as long as your PC supports booting off a USB device (even "internal" card readers are USB).
However, using a standard Flash Card to run an OS will rapidly decrease the lifespan of said Flash Card due to all the writing to the card. There are some OS's that are made for Flash Cards and will load themselves into memory and only save changes to the card during shut down. - inactive, on 12/04/2008, -0/+4I can't wait for a PC that uses them.
That will play Crysis, no problems... - Zervaman, on 12/03/2008, -2/+6Sweet!
About time we ditched those ancient spinning discs... - BungDiddy, on 12/03/2008, -0/+4the hard drive is not dead yet. SSD's are still too expensive and too small to replace hard drives. look for hard drives to continue dominating the desktop market.
- MtheoryX, on 12/03/2008, -0/+3Who the ***** are you to even think to comment on whether someone votes or not?
Seriously, YOU sound like the lunatic here.
That said, @biopmonkey, random comment much? - inactive, on 12/03/2008, -1/+4Sounds like a great time to buy hard drives!
- biopmonkey, on 12/03/2008, -1/+4So you're saying he wasn't elected???
It was supposed to be funny because of how completely irrelevant it is... So no.. Obama didn't get into the white house as president and pass a law that said "Everybody buy SSD". - cecilpl, on 12/03/2008, -0/+3"The average selling price of an HDD is also expected to drop sharply next year, iSuppli stated. HDDs are expected to sell for about $58 in the second quarter of 2009 before recovering to the near $60 range late in the fourth quarter. Those prices reflect an average of all HDDs regardless of size."
Average HDD price regardless of size? I would have trouble thinking of a more useless metric if I tried. - inactive, on 12/03/2008, -0/+31GB units? You know you can get 1GB SD cards or USB sticks for probably around $1. Do they even make 1GB SSD drives?
- FredFredrickson, on 12/03/2008, -0/+3No way - People don't use tape just because it's last year's tech. Tape drives are still used because they are more dependable for long term data storage than a hard drive.
- FredFredrickson, on 12/03/2008, -0/+3You mean hard disc. SSD = solid state.
- tgc1, on 12/03/2008, -0/+3Actually they also have an algorithm that writes to different parts of the memory. I believe it's called "wear leveling technology." So it limits the amount of times a particular area is written to. Essentially it just makes sure all the memory blocks are full before overwriting the same one. Otherwise it would write to the same block of memory all the time, and thus wear out a portion of the drive.
- inactive, on 12/03/2008, -0/+3Pirates slump, Global Warming skyrocketing.
- ctonks, on 12/03/2008, -0/+3yeah - SSD will be useful for laptop internal drives (power saving, no moving parts etc.) but for pure data storage, magnetic hard drives aren't going anywhere for quite a while.
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -0/+3yay for people with money reducing the price of new technology..
- Stevethegreat, on 12/03/2008, -0/+2Thank god for newegg and Black Friday. My 8 x OCZ core V2 are on their way and under raid 0 I'm looking to make my Ram Obsolete (I calculate that I'll be getting about 1.2GB/s reads, 800MB/s writes). SSDs are the future, moving parts would soon be a laughing stock. Now they only need to bulk up a bit concerning their capacity and soon SSDs would be a no-brainer...
- MtheoryX, on 12/03/2008, -0/+2"OTOH, IIRC, the biggest harddrive was 750GB back then. In 2007, it was 1GB. And now it's 1.5GB. Only a 2x improvement in capacity in 2 years:("
I think you mean 1TB and 1.5TB, respectively.
That said, you're right on the capacity improvements. There are physical limitations to the size of a regular HDD. The same will happen to SSD. The difference is that HDD is already there with size and price...SSD has a long way to go. - LastDitchHero, on 12/03/2008, -0/+2Ummm this is called the "product life cycle". At first HD were expensive and had high R&D costs to make. Now a lot more people buy them, less R&D, and relatively cheaper to make than when they first came out. So actually they are probably making more money off them. Same goes for SSD. It is now in it's growth stage.
- publiclurker, on 12/03/2008, -0/+2How do they determine this life expectancy? For my wife's computer, SSD would probably work out OK since there is little writing done. I do development on my computer, and probably write 50 - 100 GB a day of temp files etc..
- DyceFreak, on 12/03/2008, -0/+2yea I dont understand who is buying these solid state drives...
they are still prone to failure, they do lower power consumption but not as much as they should. They aren't fast... yet.. and they are still expensive as hell. Whoever the hell is buying these things obviously didn't do any reasearch into them. - rolf, on 12/03/2008, -0/+2MtheoryX, thanks for the correction.
My estimates on flash are probably conservative as well, since a 16GB Micro Cruzer can be had online for ~$30 in places, and 32GB for $60+ and 64GB not undeard of, in 2 years, it will probably jump to 256GB as something obtainable in a store, not just 128GB.
I wouldn't be surprised if I was still too conservative. - inactive, on 12/03/2008, -1/+3My bad robinthehood. I'm surprised no one buried me yet haha.
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