<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Daniel Giddens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel@acsdata.co.nz">daniel@acsdata.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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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.</div>
</blockquote><div><br>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>
<br>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></div><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div>