http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/ Engadget Comments for SSD prices in freefall -- won't overtake hard disks anytime soon http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/Jan 7th 2009 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/
Marty! A funny thing has happened! Doc?

SSD's have dropped in price. Now a 64GB SSD can be had for $175 instead of $480. Roughly $2.73 per GB. Yes, SSD's have dropped in price, but HD's dropped so fast it's insane. We are talking 1500 GB HD for $109. Oops, I meant 1.5TB.

So now instead of a mechanical HD being $1.40 per GB they are only 7 cents per GB! I just bought a 1.5TB HD for $109. That means mechanical HD's are now 20 times cheaper per GB. The future scares me. Hmmm.]]>May 23rd 2010 6:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/May 23rd 2010 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/May 23rd 2010 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/silly engadget!

the 2.5 is moores law - the 1.9 is what they are actually predicting and thats just justification for higher prices for the next couple of years - it will actually be much lower than that by 2010]]>Apr 25th 2007 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/Apr 25th 2007 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/Apr 25th 2007 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/Apr 25th 2007 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/Apr 25th 2007 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/
I would expect that the SSD prices will come down in a much sharped decline than that graph indicates. At the same time, I think the descent of the HDD is far too slow as well.]]>Apr 26th 2007 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/Apr 25th 2007 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/
1. The average consumer has no clue and once they get a clue, they'll want it even if they don't need it. But everybody needs it. ;)

2. Professionals in the multimedia industry will see the benefits first and be early adopters. This will drive demand for lager capacity drives which will lower the price of the small 128GB drives.

3. Competition will drive it down.

My 3 cents plain. ]]>Apr 25th 2007 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/I would love to have a really fast SSD (128 GB) as the primary drive and then a huge (500 GB+) secondary drive to store all the crap that I do not routinely access.
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I would love to have an SSD that I could have the Operating system and one single game on at the speeds they're talking.

The price might be 10X, but Hard drives are so cheap it's like buying an ink cartridge for the printer to get a new hard drive. If this improves performance, and reduces waste time it'll eventually be successful.

My big concern right now is more about longevity. I don't want to spend that money on something that will die in the first year.]]>Apr 25th 2007 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/Apr 25th 2007 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/Apr 25th 2007 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/Apr 25th 2007 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/
http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/111649644/]]>Apr 25th 2007 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/Apr 25th 2007 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/Apr 25th 2007 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/
By reliability I mean long-term reliability. Flash memory, AFAIK, has never been known to withstand many, many years of constant writing. If I'm not mistaken, they have a certain life as to their read/write cycles.

I'm still waiting for that fancy laser hologram optical memory stuff. ]]>Apr 25th 2007 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/psht, how 2020.

you gotta go for the bio interface memory.
just think, storing you whole music colletcion and a lifetime of pictures on that 3/4 of your brain you don't use.]]>Apr 25th 2007 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/Apr 25th 2007 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/Apr 25th 2007 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/Apr 25th 2007 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/
Terabyte and larger mechanical drives will be kicking around for many more years, but flash drives for mobile consumers are going to hit affordable prices and begin gaining mainstream acceptance this year. By the end of 2008, SSDs will be the de facto choice for all medium to high end mobile PCs- mobile trad drives will still hang around for budget computers, but they'll pretty much be eliminated once the flash price point goes below traditional, mobile drives. I'll say an essential death for mobile traditional drives (none can be found on retailers shelves or with new systems) around 2012.]]>Apr 25th 2007 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/
I would like one for holding GPS data when I offroad in my Jeep, since the bouncing and bashing is generally bad for disk drives.
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In the year 2007, after 10 years of constant upgrades to hardware and os we shouldn't have to wait for anything to happen on our computers. Yet we still do. Here is a technology that promises to fill that gap and all you people talk about is cost per mb? You all deserve windows vista and sony rootkits.]]>May 1st 2007 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/ after 10 years of constant upgrades to hardware and os we shouldn't have to wait for anything to happen on our computers.

After 10 years of upgrades to our hardware, our computers can do things say, 100x faster.
After 10 years of upgrades to our OSs (and correspondingly to our apps & libraries) they require about 100x as many things done to run.
So the CPU/execution stays about the same.
OTOH, the secondary storage hardware has increased in speed much less, perhaps only 10x. But, because much of the 100x things to do lives in system libraries (already in RAM) we only have file sizes about 10x to be loaded from disk.

Result: Performance remains approximately constant for the latest software and latest hardware.

The reason for this, of course, is simple market pressures. Waiting doesn't bother people enough to avoid upgrading to the newest, bloatedest os & apps. If it did, then the resulting low sales to app makers would give them strong pressure to make the next version faster, not slower, as a marketing point. Additionally, if the waiting bothered people, they would be upgrading to high-end hardware instead of midrange stuff; thus encouraging release of better high-end hardware.
These effects clearly work in reverse: if software, while quite speedy, was a little too feature-light, the balance would shift that way. Since the waiting-for-disk time has remained level for years, it seems clear that we are equilibriated at what the market as a whole is happy with.

Doesn't mean I'm happy with it, but for people like us, the sol'n is to buy high-end hardware, and hold off on software updates. That way, we get better performance, and send as strong a message as we can (via $$, the only thing corporations understand) that we don't like waiting.

Re: vista & RKs, dead right! (-:]]>Oct 15th 2007 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/25/ssd-prices-in-freefall-wont-overtake-hard-disks-anytime-soon/I got 1 SSD SATA interface (same interface as regulare 2.5'') Now, the speed of my system is working very fast.. I love ebay
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