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Originally Posted by rowan
Still a niche market. People will pay a premium price for a 10000RPM VelociRaptor or a fast SSD because they want the speed, and perhaps status, but I think it's going to be a while before we see SSD displace a mechanical HD as a standard (like EVERY new comp has them) drive.
I would love to eat my words though, I'd be elated if someone came out with a 1TB SSD for $100 this year  |
you will see 1TB SSD for $100-150 this year (depending on the dollar value). I was at a Sandisk seminar here in denmark (EET sponsored) where they gave us a veiw of what is in the pipeline. My guess is Q3 will be the time where you see companies like IBM and HP sell their servers with a SSD disk as Bootdrive
I believe the only think holding the development back at the moment, is the lack of consensus when it comes to what interface will be used. I hope it will be a PCI raisercard, like you had in the old days for special IO/boards. Would boost performance insanely much. People could finally harvest the capacity of the new CPU's