Solid state - 1.6TB - 230MB/sec+ - nice.
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I didn't know they could make solid state drives with those capacities. How come they've started out on 16 GB for a ridiculous price, now it's 32 GB for £230 and 64 GB for £600 (which is still outrageous). Now suddenly there's a 1.6 TB drive with unheard transfer rates on the way, which will either make the other ridiculously expensive drives completely obsolete (although the new drive will be horribly overpriced), or these new drives will turn out to be a complete exaggeration (as per usual). I thought solid state drives were supposed to be cheaper to produce than moving-part hard drives, anyway? Makes you wonder what a travesty this all is.
You don't get something for nothing in the computing world these days, do you? Instead of smiling at my new purchase when it arrives at the door, I'm usually grimacing, wondering where all my money's gone (and that's after buying things at a relatively "reasonable" price). Why do people encourage all this by purchasing things when they're outrageously expensive?
You don't get something for nothing in the computing world these days, do you? Instead of smiling at my new purchase when it arrives at the door, I'm usually grimacing, wondering where all my money's gone (and that's after buying things at a relatively "reasonable" price). Why do people encourage all this by purchasing things when they're outrageously expensive?
the reason why they are so expensive is probaly the fact that it is new technology and to the average person it seems correct that new technology should be more expensive then old technology. the sad thing is companies like to capitalise on this. (well thats my idea on the high prices anyway, it might be incorrect)
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i have a feeling itll be £1k+ and be mainly used for servers for big sites etc at first, hopefully im wrong though
That'll be £10k + I would have thought.
Current prices for 256GB SS drives are about £2k.
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O____o well that's my hopes of getting one out the window then!
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by the time these become affordable microsoft will just spoil it and release a new windows that needs about 40gb of diskspace to install.
longer load times did i hear?
longer load times did i hear?
Won't matter Perfect Chaos, as long as they can hit the under 1ms random times they're hitting now, performance will be incredibly much better. That coupled with lower power usage and higher transfer rates = godly stuff.
And prices should be acceptable in 2-3 years, unfortunately not before probably, only if the dollar crashes even more. This is going by the "double capacity for half the price each year" thingie.
And prices should be acceptable in 2-3 years, unfortunately not before probably, only if the dollar crashes even more. This is going by the "double capacity for half the price each year" thingie.