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   #21. Posted at 10:52 PM on May 31st 2008, Edited at 10:54 PM on May 31st 2008 Edit   Reply
Lazier_Said
Bear in mind SSD won't hit $1 a gig let alone $.10 a gig for several development cycles.

So saying SSD at .50 / gb is good enough to be appealing against today's magnetic storage at .16c / gb is missing the point - winning the contest against 2008 magnetics in 2010 does you no good at all.
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#21, Yea, I don't see SSDs in the game no time soon, their smalle...  :  ish718  (#22)  «
#21, SSD prices are riding Moore's Law and falling at more than 5...  :  UberGerbil  (#23)  «
#21, You're just assuming they will compete for exactly the same ...  :  MadManOriginal  (#24)  «
#24, Yep, and more so when size is less of a factor. You can a...  :  muyuubyou  (#25)  «

   #18. Posted at 02:20 PM on May 31st 2008 Edit   Reply
Furen
"Despite attempts to thwart solid-state drive makers with lawsuits..."

Not despite, because of. If Seagates lawsuits succeed, the SSD market will not disappear, only other SSD manufacturers. This would mean that it would be in a position to take more market share as one of the few entrenched players still standing.
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#18, Patent suits these days are rarely carried out full force. T...  :  indeego  (#20)  «

   #9. Posted at 05:07 PM on May 30th 2008, Edited at 05:08 PM on May 30th 2008 Edit   Reply
Jon
I wonder what the expected lifespan would be of an SSD. There's no mechanical parts, nothing to 'wear' down over time. So will bit-creep become the de-facto reason for SSD failure? Ie, the same problem that afflicts Flashdrives.

There's also the question of how many read/write cycles can the SSD endure before caving in?
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#9, Due to a controller/encrypto chip that manages wear-levellin...  :  ssidbroadcast  (#10)  «
#9, http://techreport.com/ja.zz?id=327450  :  UberGerbil  (#11)  «
#11, "6. When a block fails, it gets retired. If there are no ...  :  indeego  (#16)  «
#16, linux have a FS thats just for flash devices http://dev...  :  Stranger  (#17)  «
#16, Yeah, I wondered about that too. But the filesystem do...  :  UberGerbil  (#19)  «

   #15. Posted at 08:52 PM on May 30th 2008, Edited at 09:00 PM on May 30th 2008 Edit   Reply
albundy
hopefully they wont claim ssd as their invention.
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   #2. Posted at 03:24 PM on May 30th 2008 Edit   Reply
Spotpuff
I would buy one for $0.20/GB, let alone $0.10/GB. Hell, even at $0.30/GB you're looking at only $150 for a 500GB SSD which is pretty good.
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#2, When they talk about Cost Per Gig, they mean to manufacture,...  :  Master Kenobi  (#7)  «
#7, What are their profit margins like? 100%?  :  Spotpuff  (#12)  «
#12, Well, the quoted manufacturing cost for a "cheap hard ...  :  ludi  (#13)  «
#13, Which is just about right, as Seagate's gross margi...  :  UberGerbil  (#14)  «

   #4. Posted at 03:36 PM on May 30th 2008 Edit   Reply
ludi
Bandwagon, meet Seagate. Seagate, this is Bandwagon. Glad to see the two of you finally hitting it off.
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#4, Well, give them credit, they're getting on the bandwagon ear...  :  UberGerbil  (#8)  «

   #6. Posted at 03:46 PM on May 30th 2008 Edit   Reply
Forge
Yeah, the only disk I would strongly want an SSD for would be my OS disk. That's currently a WD 150GB Raptor that I paid around 100$ for. That's ~0.60$/GB, so even 1$/GB sounds very doable to me. I only need ~150-200GB total. My Linux install is lighter, I was on a 36GB Raptor till very recently.

The big huge multi-hundred GB drives can stay spinning platters for the foreseeable future. It's the OS drives that could use the speed, and they can be much smaller.
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   #5. Posted at 03:37 PM on May 30th 2008 Edit   Reply
paulWTAMU
I'd look at it around 2 dollars/gig for myself *shrug*. At that point a 128 gig drive would be affordable as part of a PC. By the time it's a buck/gig I think they could maybe start to make real inroads to desktop storage.
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   #3. Posted at 03:25 PM on May 30th 2008 Edit   Reply
DrDillyBar
I'm still waiting for Holographic or something. I've got 5 HDD's at the moment, and would love to get a pair of 2TB drives to run as a mirror.
That being said, Vista's OS partition on a nice zippy SSD would work well.
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   #1. Posted at 03:14 PM on May 30th 2008 Edit   Reply
bdwilcox
This only proves that the timing of their lawsuit was pure coincidence. [/sarcasm]
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