http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/ Engadget Comments for Intel launching cheaper SSDs with up to 320GB capacity in two weeks? 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/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 5:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/]]>Jun 29th 2009 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 6:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/These prices should be easily cut in half when the 34nm flash comes out from different foundries..]]>Jun 29th 2009 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 5:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 5:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 7:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/That's because higher capacity SSDs were to expensive to manufacture for the low price required by netbooks. Furthermore, Intel and Microsoft limited the availability of netbooks with higher SSD capacity.

SSDs will replace HDDs in all areas only when the cost per Gb is lower for SSDs than it is for HDDs. I believe that will not happen for a while, however, i do see SSDs taking over in certain areas such as:
- high speed server where write throughput needs to be max;
- hybrid storage laptops
- hybrid storage computers (1 small and fast SSD for the OS and applications, regular HDDs for massive storage)
- netbooks (since they're becoming cheaper and windows 7 is coming out which is the first SSD-aware MS OS)
- smartbooks (being based on non-windows compliant ARM architecture ( Intel) no hardware limits will be imposed and SSDs might become more popular than on netbooks)

Note that in the mobile computing world SSDs have numerous advatages over HDDs despite the price difference (heat, reliability, power consumption etc.)
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Those are the things I think will prevent Flash SSDs from ever breaking through as storage medium outside memory cards. But perhaps, maybe they'll find a new method to make the Flash cells less leaky and avoid this doom :)]]>Jun 29th 2009 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 7:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Until I see benchmarks I don't trust the marketing numbers.]]>Jun 29th 2009 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/
So, when these things live up to the full potential (not just burst reads), then you will have something. Now, you just have an interesting experiment today and a lot of lost cash in a month.
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none show that behaviour of you mentoin, dave.

i think it's greatly exagerated on the web, the problem with the performance loss after a while. at least, with hdd's, it's much worse. some of those ssd's are now soon 3/4th year old, and in daily use.]]>Jun 29th 2009 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/
That RAID array won't get you the low latency performance that SSDs deliver. That's what SSDs are about. The ]]>Jun 29th 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/intel-launching-cheaper-ssds-with-up-to-320gb-capacity-soon/Jun 29th 2009 6:23PM