Solid State Drives - The big thing of 2009?

[admin]

Been reading some reviews on SSDs, especially the offerings from Intel, and they all make the technology sound very impressive.

For example, this review:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/12/17/intel-x25-e-32gb-ssd-review/1

Vista boots in half of the time it takes a Samsung Spinpoint F1, with benchmarking read speed at 2.5 times the Samsung, and write speed is twice as fast as well. Seek time is in microseconds, rather than milliseconds. Reliability and lack of noise are other big pluses.

Of course, the 32 GB version is $700+ at the moment (there's another 80GB model for "only" $520, but that uses older technology), so it's out of reach of most people, but I wonder what the price would be like at the end of the year?

If capacity can reach 200GB, and price can drop to $200 by the end of the year, then I think the time of the good old HDD is near an end.

[dr_ml422]

This is the ticket soon to be here. Thnx for keeping us all abreast of these new technological breakthroughs, as it's very difficult to juggle all of this unless it's essential to your interests and of course occupation. Just like you suggested. When the price and proven stability are established, bye bye hdd's.