May 7, 201412 yr http://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/anton-shilov/sandisk-to-release-8tb-ssd-in-2015-16tb-ssd-a-year-after/ This would be a complete game changer for my next build.
May 7, 201412 yr http://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/anton-shilov/sandisk-to-release-8tb-ssd-in-2015-16tb-ssd-a-year-after/ This would be a complete game changer for my next build. Will be interesting. Hard to believe the spinners will win this battle in the long run. But the competition will be good for the consumers. It is amazing that a year ago it looked like 4T - 5T was seemingly the highest capacity we might see from traditional HDSs as aerial density maxed out, but now they are talking about 60T. (Imagine an unRaid server with just 3 of those puppies). But SSDs can grow to seemingly infinite size. If SSDs came out in 3.5" packaging think of the number of chips they could stuff inside Hold on to your hats gentlemen, it's gonna be a wild ride!
May 7, 201412 yr 1$ a GB roughly ... is that right? So come 2017 we could be paying $2-4000 for what costs us today (at uk prices) £125 for a 4TB nas spinner (mission critical premiums on top accepted) .... can't be right! What am i missing here?
May 8, 201412 yr http://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/anton-shilov/sandisk-to-release-8tb-ssd-in-2015-16tb-ssd-a-year-after/ This would be a complete game changer for my next build. Assuming, of course, that your pocketbook can handle the cost :)
May 8, 201412 yr http://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/anton-shilov/sandisk-to-release-8tb-ssd-in-2015-16tb-ssd-a-year-after/ This would be a complete game changer for my next build. Assuming, of course, that your pocketbook can handle the cost :) There are many examples of technology getting dramatically cheaper as the popularity increases. My prediction is the gap will narrow as SSDs get bigger. The value of the faster performance drops as the size increases (for most applications). I was willing to pay a premium for SSDs to load my OS, apps, and VMs. But still use regular HDDs for bulkier stuff. Similarly businesses interested in very high density storage will be less inclined to pay a premium per gig for huge SSDs vs HDDs. If SSDs want to play in that space they'll be competing with the magnetics.
May 8, 201412 yr There are many examples of technology getting dramatically cheaper as the popularity increases. Obviously I'm well aware of that My first memory purchase was a 4KB card that I had to solder all the parts and sockets on; then plug in the memory chips. Doing the assembly (soldering, etc.) myself saved about $250, so the card "only" cost ~ $1200 At that rate, one of today's 8GB modules would cost $2,400,000,000 My first hard drive was a 26MB Seagate that I got a 10% discount on, so it "only" cost me $4500. At that rate, one of my current 4TB drives would cost $692,307,692.31 Clearly the costs have come down a bit
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