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If you read my post you will see I bought an Intel 40GB SSD for $225. This is not about price per MB it is about 32 seconds boot time vs 10 seconds from cold not from standby. It's about achieving 300MB/s not 60MB/s. It's about running 4 streams at 300MB/s and not 4 streams at a few MB/s. If you use a new SSD drive you will never go back ... well that's my opinion anyway. <BR>
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I have multiple frontends, some with compact flash, some with HDD and now some with SSD's. I am speaking from first hand experience not paper theory.<BR>
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I agree we are a way off getting 1TB SSD's at cheap prices today. Today we can get 2TB for under $230. Two years ago we probably were buying 250GB drives for that price.<BR>
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I use old style drives for the backend because yes SSD's would be way to expensive to use to TB's of storage. The original topic was frontends which is where I recommended SSD's over compact flash.<BR>
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I recon we will see TB SSD's for reasonable prices within 2 years. Manufacturers will be heading that way versus mechanical drives and as volume and competition rises the prices will fall. <BR>
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Lets repost in two years and see who's right :)<BR>
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cheers<BR>
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On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 15:48 +1200, Steve Hodge wrote:
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Within 2 years all drives will be SSD's, next to no power consumption, no moving parts, 5-6 times the speed. Limited no only by size and price and these are going up and down in the usual directions like all IT hardware does.
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Size and particularly price have a long way to move though. The cheapest SSDs are about $300 for 64GB. That'd get you a 2TB Western Digital SATA drive. So at best price/GB is 30 times higher for SSDs. I can't see that gap closing in 2 years. And the biggest SSDs are only around 250GB. Fine for a desktop, not so good when you've got 3TB of media to store.<BR>
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Personally I think SSDs will take over as the OS/applications drive in most new machines within the next 2 years, but they won't account for all drives, no way.<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
Steve<BR>
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