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Solid State Hard Drives taking a price dive
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Solid state hard drives are revolutionary. They have taken a normal hard drive and instead of using a disk it uses memory banks. Allowing hard drives to be much smaller in size allowing more room for ventilation in smaller notebooks. The biggest problem so far with solid state drives is the price tag. These tiny drives cost a fortune for just 60 gigs of storage. Now they are going to take a price drop and be much more affordable. Allowing people to indulge in the much smaller laptops. ;)
“Compared to the price you’re paying today for a 64GB drive. You’ll get a 128GB of storage for less than half the price (of the 64GB drive),” said Patrick Wilkison, vice president of marketing and business development at STEC, a supplier of MLC-based solid-state drives.
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Jeff Norris
May 31st, 2008
at 10:43pm
hmm is smaller always better? the more crap you put on board that more chance you have of having and entire system failure. I like the same sub notebooks too but not so small you toss them in the trash like your old magazines or papers.
I also want to wait and see the stability and performance improve
mark dz
May 31st, 2008
at 11:47pm
AND the best advantage is that the flash technology has no moving parts, unlike current hard drives, correct?
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venzket
June 1st, 2008
at 12:52am
yea, i did a blog earlier about the failure rates of solid state drives its funny, some people say they are great some hate them
George
June 1st, 2008
at 3:16am
even though they’re definitely faster, they dont have as long of a life. also, does anyone besides the military REALLY need one? i have a 5400 rpm drive, and its fast enough for me!!! if you really need speed, just go with 7200 rpm!