The widespread use of Flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) could be as far off as five years, according to one analyst. Jim Handy, of Objective Analysis, believes that the chip-based drives may not see significant use in notebook computers for three to five years. "We remain sceptical in our outlook for rapid adoption of Flash-based SSDs," he said.
"Flash has found success in replacing hard disk drives [HDDs] where a fixed capacity is needed, but notebook and PC users will continue to demand increasingly larger HDDs for quite a while yet." The first Flash-based drives began to emerge as options for notebooks in 2007. Vendors such as Apple and Dell offer SSDs on selected notebooks at anywhere from $900 to $1,300.
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"Flash has found success in replacing hard disk drives [HDDs] where a fixed capacity is needed, but notebook and PC users will continue to demand increasingly larger HDDs for quite a while yet." The first Flash-based drives began to emerge as options for notebooks in 2007. Vendors such as Apple and Dell offer SSDs on selected notebooks at anywhere from $900 to $1,300.
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huh i thought it was the opposite, if the data is spread out the solid state drive will be able to retrieve it faster because there is no head to swing all over the place, but the throughput will be less than a mechanical head reading a continuous stream of data on the disc
besides, not losing your data everytime you drop the disk is something i really like about solid state ....
of lower prices in the coming years. It's called capitalism......it works
capitalism!
Well, it is pretty damn obvious!
For most people a
1 2 48 GB USB disk or SD card is enough to store their work on. I'll be the first in the queue for a cheap and cheerful super light long battery life Linux based disk-less laptop. Just wait and see...Exactly what I was thinking
Today there are NAS drives and all that for backup (i have a 500GB one now
I'd definitely like to get rid of my HDD if i could have a SSD in there. I have a T60 now so SATA SSDs are starting to look tempting even if it's only 32GB for now
There's always someone, and it isn't limited to gamers. I do work with Final Cut Studio 2. If you install every single component and all component files, it takes up ~66 GB. And we haven't even begun to discuss the file sizes of the files I work with
For the record, I don't have all 66 GB installed on my laptop, nor do I do most of my work from my laptop. I would if I could, though!
That's what I wanna do in the future. But as someone else posted above. What is the life for SSDs at this point? OS I/O specially pagefile usage will write to the SSD alot. I suppose you can move the pagefile to the HDD though, but then that defeates the whole idea of having the OS on the SSD for faster I/O.
There's always someone, and it isn't limited to gamers. I do work with Final Cut Studio 2. If you install every single component and all component files, it takes up ~66 GB. And we haven't even begun to discuss the file sizes of the files I work with
Is this true?
Is this true?
Better question is what is the life expectancy of a normal harddrive? 3years? 5 years? more? I think 3 years is plenty if SSD last that long. Plus you can always get extra ram and disabled the pagefile.
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