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The Future is SSD

By eWEEK
2008-12-18

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Right now, solid-state drives are a specialty item, available for laptops as a premium and fairly expensive option. But thats going to change as the technology gains popularity over the next three years. Researchers forecast dramatic growth for SSD shipments, and as they approach capacities of 512GB, theyre shaping up to be viable alternatives to hard drives in mobile devices and even server equipment.

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reliability and response time
I think the price I mentioned is reasonbale and without any moving parts the MTBF could approach 75,000 hours.
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Spoken like people with no knowledge of current SSD technology. With read speeds going over 200MB/sec read and 160MB/sec write speeds and near zero...
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Concur. In the end, SSD vs magneto-optical is a question of response time and product life versus power savings. SSD have been used for decades...
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SSD Viable Today? NOT YET!
How many of us have implemented SSDs only to pull them back out of service due to impossibly slow performance and users screaming about having to...
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