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low end computers in the business and public schooling communities should have a clear and easy choice of 30, 50, 80 and 100 GB SSD drives.

One Laptop per child models can get away with 4GB SD cards.

Gaming communities, entertainment and special interest computing patrons should be given more expensive access to higher capacity drives.]]>Dec 4th 2007 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/Dec 4th 2007 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/Dec 4th 2007 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/Dec 4th 2007 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/
I'd hate to invest $2 a gig on a hard drive that could literally wear out after a few good years of heavy use.]]>Dec 4th 2007 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/Dec 4th 2007 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/Dec 4th 2007 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/Dec 4th 2007 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/
they aint very creative with their name either...STEC...what the heck ]]>Dec 4th 2007 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/Dec 4th 2007 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/@ $2 per GB a 512GB flash drive would cost $1024

I COULD GET A COMPUTER FOR THAT MUCH

signed- jobless]]>Dec 4th 2007 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/Dec 4th 2007 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/
Therefore I think $2/gig is a far more reasonable price, albeit for a slightly slower technology in a slightly larger format (2.5" vs 1.8")]]>Dec 4th 2007 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/Dec 4th 2007 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/
I really want one, though. I still love the idea of having a 32 or 64GB SSD for my system partition, and a nice big hard drive for the rest of my stuff. I'm betting that's the system of the future...]]>Dec 4th 2007 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/
(as long as I don't have to put it on the front of my case ;) )]]>Dec 4th 2007 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/Dec 4th 2007 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/Dec 4th 2007 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/
Maybe they'll have a 512GB FlashSSD out for $1000 by that time, but maybe it'll have to compete with a $200 1TB disk drive of the same size and at 2x the speed by then.]]>Dec 6th 2007 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/stec-announces-cheap-32gb-to-512gb-mlc-nand-based-ssds/
and oh, what a wonderful world...]]>Dec 6th 2007 12:21AM