No, what matters is the fact there are introduced. This means it is possible to produce and more manufacturers are going to jump on board. Supply goes up, price goes down. Economics. You can't put a price on something that doesn't exist...
For some people, price makes a difference. For others, price makes no difference. Obviously, this thing is going to be super expensive, but about a year ago, 32gb and 64gb drives were prohibitively expensive, and now they are within reach of most people (who want that size). What this produce means, hopefully, is that 1gb and beyond SSDs will soon be coming way down in price. This drive offers 4TB in the space of a 3.5" bay, so this type of storage density will be great for laptop and desktop.
in the enterprise environment, especially in high density storage environments, price is very low on the list of whats needed.
transfer speeds (real world) reliability density "floor" space power
all of those are way more important than the cost.
i'll take my superfast SAS drives over any SATA drive all day long. if i can trade out and still have their I/O speeds, with higher density, and more reliability, cost doesn't really matter all that.
take a high density SAN for instance.
it may hold 50 2.5" HDD's. If i can double the total storage space (or quadruple or more) simply by spending $100K on these SSD drives, it is essentially a push versus purchasing a new second SAN to add to the center. now take in that i dont have to add power, take up space (which is usually at a premium), and of course set it all up on the network with that needed infrastructure, and I'm money ahead by quite a bit. if it can quadruple the storage pool, i'm money well ahead.
Personally, I'm still gonna hold out for a few more years- every couple of weeks there seems to be faster and faster SSDs on the market, I'm gonna wait for the acceleration to slow a little bit (hopefully not very soon, epic fast hard drives would be awesome) to make the speed of my outdatedness a bit slower than it is now...
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What matters is price. Nothing else.
No, what matters is the fact there are introduced. This means it is possible to produce and more manufacturers are going to jump on board. Supply goes up, price goes down. Economics. You can't put a price on something that doesn't exist...
For some people, price makes a difference. For others, price makes no difference. Obviously, this thing is going to be super expensive, but about a year ago, 32gb and 64gb drives were prohibitively expensive, and now they are within reach of most people (who want that size). What this produce means, hopefully, is that 1gb and beyond SSDs will soon be coming way down in price. This drive offers 4TB in the space of a 3.5" bay, so this type of storage density will be great for laptop and desktop.
in the enterprise environment, especially in high density storage environments, price is very low on the list of whats needed.
transfer speeds (real world)
reliability
density
"floor" space
power
all of those are way more important than the cost.
i'll take my superfast SAS drives over any SATA drive all day long.
if i can trade out and still have their I/O speeds, with higher density, and more reliability, cost doesn't really matter all that.
take a high density SAN for instance.
it may hold 50 2.5" HDD's.
If i can double the total storage space (or quadruple or more) simply by spending $100K on these SSD drives, it is essentially a push versus purchasing a new second SAN to add to the center.
now take in that i dont have to add power, take up space (which is usually at a premium), and of course set it all up on the network with that needed infrastructure, and I'm money ahead by quite a bit. if it can quadruple the storage pool, i'm money well ahead.
Personally, I'm still gonna hold out for a few more years- every couple of weeks there seems to be faster and faster SSDs on the market, I'm gonna wait for the acceleration to slow a little bit (hopefully not very soon, epic fast hard drives would be awesome) to make the speed of my outdatedness a bit slower than it is now...