News Intel outlines SSD plans

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/08/19/intel-outlines-ssd-plans/1

Intel has revealed that the first SSDs will be available very soon, with more to follow in the first quarter of 2009.

 

They key question is "How much?" Looks awesome though, a boot drive capable of such insane read/writes would rock.

 

Looks promising, if they can deliver (and at a semi-reasonable price).

 

Great, they are going to kill people like OCZ and Super Talent in the SSD market...

 

I don't think intel will kill them, its good news, competition just forces other companies to do better , things like this will definitely help lower the prices of SSD's

 

SSD prices are currently a big ask for most people to foke out
They will need to come down to somewere along hte £100 mark to start been viable.( 32gb version)
Servers use alot of harddisks to get hte storage they need. (repeating it with ssd drives will cost the earth ) 4700 ssd drives at 32gb version to replicate a 300 teribite server. Which at aprox price of £200 is £940000 ouch.

As a company we get a 1tb hard disk for aprox £40 ( theres no vat tax ect ) ( 12 grand ish. Instead of 940k hmm ) not a hard choice

for companys price needs to be close to £50 a drive. to even make it financially viable.

I hope MS do it but i dont think it will. SSD is still way to expensive. And very difficult to mass produce in the quantitys a big company needs.

 

+1

 

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