SSD already poised to take over traditional hard drives
May 28, 2008
By Aaron Burkhart
A few months back I wrote about the interest in solid state drives coming out of CES 2008. Before Samsung’s recently announced 256GB SSD, the biggest obstacle to widespread adaption seemed to be storage size, but with this large of a size and multi-level cell architecture, SSD solutions are moving ahead faster than expected. In fact, market forecasts for SSD computers from research firm iSuppli predict very dramatic increases starting next year.
The five-year outlook is now better than it was last year, and why not? Solid state drives have so many benefits compared to traditional hard drives; the switch to SSD might be as quick of a switch as it was from floppies to USB flash drives.
The new drives are supposed to be out the end of this year, so we’ll see if the price will be reasonable enough so as not to slow the adoption process.
Entry Filed under: memory storage, technology. Tags: samsung, Solid state drive, SSD, storage.
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james braselton | October 1, 2008 at 11:58 am
SEE SDD SOLID STATE DRIVES WILL NEVER TAKE OFF BECUASE NO COMPUTER STORE HAS ANY IN STOCK NO GAMING CONSOLE WILL USE SSD AND YOU CAN ONLY ORDER A SSD COMPUTER OFF THE INTERNET AND IF YOU DONT WANT TO BUY OFF THE INTERNET YOUR OUT OF LUCK AND ALL THE NICK PICKING MEANS THAT NO SSD WILL NEVER GET TOO THE COMPUTER STORES I AM AT HOW LONG IT TAKES TOO LOAD MY GAME I AM THINKING ABOUT INVITING BORG TECHNOLOGIES BECUASE THE BORG COLECTIVE IS THE FASTEST TECHNOLOGIES IN THE UNIVERSE