BF2S Forums WD enters SSD Market

jamiet757 wrote:

Are you guys kidding me? Look at how far down in price they have come in the last 6 months. It used to be you could get a 16GB SATA SSD for around $1000, now you can get one for a few hundred, and they have much larger capacities. I think in the near future we will all migrate to them, and they will be as cheap as flash drives are now.

BTW: that snippet is full of typos, it drove me nuts.

.Sup wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

jamiet757 wrote:

Are you guys kidding me? Look at how far down in price they have come in the last 6 months. It used to be you could get a 16GB SATA SSD for around $1000, now you can get one for a few hundred, and they have much larger capacities. I think in the near future we will all migrate to them, and they will be as cheap as flash drives are now.

BTW: that snippet is full of typos, it drove me nuts.

Except memory failure > HDD failure.

I can see myself using a SSD for OS and primary apps in the near future, but mechanical will always have a place in my heart for storage...and 'backing up' SSD info.

I thought its the other way around: flash cards and usb keys never failed on me yet, HDDs did

mikkel wrote:

DeathUnlimited wrote:

SSD's are mostly enthsiastic stuff, as are raptors. Wait till SAS becomes mainstream, that'll be

SAS is just an interface. What's so awesome about it?

{M5}Sniper3 wrote:

mikkel wrote:

DeathUnlimited wrote:

SSD's are mostly enthsiastic stuff, as are raptors. Wait till SAS becomes mainstream, that'll be

SAS is just an interface. What's so awesome about it?

Uh... It's all solid, no moving parts, and it's a hell-a-lot faster then current HDDs.

mikkel wrote:

.Sup wrote:

{M5}Sniper3 wrote:

Uh... It's all solid, no moving parts, and it's a hell-a-lot faster then current HDDs.

Like mikkel said its just an interface. Fiber optic is even better if it will be implemented into SSDs. The more popular sata3 will be out too

I don't really see a compelling reason to use optical interfaces to connect internal storage devices. The medium is more or less irrelevant, as any optical PHY specifications that can match current copper solutions will be way too expensive for mass production, way too complex if the optical core needs protection from the average consumer, and unless someone manages to seal a very favourable deal with Corning, way too fragile to use, let alone route, inside a regular computer case.

mikkel wrote:

.Sup wrote:

mikkel wrote:

I don't really see a compelling reason to use optical interfaces to connect internal storage devices. The medium is more or less irrelevant, as any optical PHY specifications that can match current copper solutions will be way too expensive for mass production, way too complex if the optical core needs protection from the average consumer, and unless someone manages to seal a very favourable deal with Corning, way too fragile to use, let alone route, inside a regular computer case.

It gives an even faster transfer rate than SAS. That was my only point of mentioning it.

Like I said, the throughput depends on the PHY, and it won't be economically viable to do anything optical that matches the throughput of current copper interfaces in the immediate future.

Defiance wrote:

mikkel wrote:

.Sup wrote:

It gives an even faster transfer rate than SAS. That was my only point of mentioning it.

Like I said, the throughput depends on the PHY, and it won't be economically viable to do anything optical that matches the throughput of current copper interfaces in the immediate future.

I don't think there was ever an argument for it's economic viability, just that in the world of performance, someone may try it.