http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/ Engadget Comments for SanDisk announces 32GB SSD: prices begin to fall http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 4th 2007 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/
32GB is too small for most notebook comps, but would work for PMPs... oh wait... $600 for the drive itself, right.]]>Jan 4th 2007 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 4th 2007 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 4th 2007 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/
iirc, the benefits of ssd include better boot times and less battery power usage. i would be pretty happy if my macbook was instant on and lasted more than 3 hours on the battery.]]>Jan 4th 2007 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 4th 2007 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/
Are you serious? You CAN’T think of any practical uses for a 32GB drive that’s half the size of a posted note? OK… I’ll be NICE and step over the first word I thinking to describe your question, and answer it by saying…

- MP3 players
- Cellphones
- Cameras
- PDAs
- UMPC/Mini Handheld PCs
- All Apple/Mac Crap
- Thumb Drives
- PMP devices
- PSP/DS
- Portable Hard-Drives
- HDD attachment for the X-BOX/PS3/Wii

Do I really need to continue?
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OK… I read your entire post – your question is STILL stupid. It was stupid from the moment you said it. I gave you 6 good reasons how a drive like this would be useful, and yet you still have a complete lack of vision.

Post no.2:
Nobody is going to run out and “buy one now”. That’s not how it works. This is simply information from research and development, information that will be extremely useful to manufactures. (ie: Apple, Samsung, LG, etc) Consumers won’t see a stand alone drive like this 5 years at lease.
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if you're a big enough nerd to be on here like the rest of us, and well aware of the data rates, then you're also aware that there will be plenty of early adopters who have to buy the newest, fastest, bestest _____. this is just the new shiny for that group.]]>Jan 4th 2007 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 4th 2007 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 4th 2007 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 4th 2007 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 4th 2007 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/
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I'll be getting one of these for my bootable drive on my PC, and in my UMPC [although I'll be selling my Q1 by the end of the first quarter 2007] 'nearly' instant on and extended battery life will do a body good. Now, add a zero to that size of drive, and keep it at the same price, and I'll be overcome with sweat.]]>Jan 4th 2007 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 4th 2007 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 4th 2007 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 4th 2007 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/
Sure, give me a larger capacity drive in a 2.5-inch form factor, and I'm there. :)]]>Jan 4th 2007 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 13th 2007 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 4th 2007 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 4th 2007 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 4th 2007 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/
I can also see another use for this - video cameras. There is a trend to replace tapes with hard drives, this is a great solution. You get better battery life and a lower failure rate, not to mention the higher transfer rate required for HD video. Capacities will increase and prices will fall, just like we see in normal hard drives. Give it a year or two and we'll all be installing these in our computers.]]>Jan 4th 2007 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Generally speaking on a 40GB hard drive, most of the people in the office I support have anywhere from 10GB-17GB of free space. While 32GB would still leave room, it wouldn’t be a whole heck of a lot. Then you have Vista which no doubt is going to eat even more space then XP. No 40GB is the sweet spot right now. 50GB would be preferable.
]]>Jan 4th 2007 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 4th 2007 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 4th 2007 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/this thing might just endup in someones ipod oneday]]>Jan 4th 2007 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 4th 2007 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/
The MK6008GAH Sandisk used for their comparision has 300.000h MTBF, an expected lifetime of 5 years or 20.000 hours and a transfere rate of bout 25MB/s.

What looks interesting is the speed and reliabilty increase.
Not so much the power-usage. In comparison to the other components of my system the HD is not that much of a factor.

The quoted 600$ is too much. The bulk-prices are much better, but you'd have to take a big markup because of returns by people that hammer those things with Vista and Bittorent...

Expect a drop to 400$ at the end of H1 or if Apple starts to sell Ipod with them, you'll get them for ~400$ wraped in an aac/mp3-player. :)]]>Jan 4th 2007 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/
Consider yourself joined!

An ultralite MacBook Pro, completely solid state (with one of these flash drives and the optical drive removed), and a corresponding reduction in weight, would have my credit card number on its web order page faster than you could say "portable computing nirvana."]]>Jan 4th 2007 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 5th 2007 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 5th 2007 12:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 5th 2007 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 5th 2007 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Yeah, it's still pretty expensive, and yeah, 32Gb is still not much...
But the real news here is: Price is dropping and capacities are upping!

Not long ago SSD drives were still in that "probable future tech" area... now it's becoming very real.
If prices drops more and capacities goes up, it'll be a great advance to storage technology. It's something like going from CDs to mp3.]]>Jan 6th 2007 12:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/Jan 6th 2007 6:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/sandisk-announces-32gb-ssd-prices-begin-to-fall/
Big single solid state drives (either single drives or RAID'ed units) are the holy grail for the digital video industry. Currently they are very expensive when you look at the amount of storage you need for the data rates we work at. The more compainies who make them, the cheaper they become and the more R&D goes into them etc.
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