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[TPU] Samsung: Solid-State Will Match Hard Drive Prices in a Few Years Time

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In a phone interview with Brian Beard, flash marketing manager for Samsung Semiconductor, CNET have come up with some good news for those of you waiting for the cost of solid-state drives to come down. Solid-state drives are better in almost all ways than current hard drive technology, and they represent the natural step ahead in computing. However there's always something that does not fit well, current solid-state drives are still too expensive to become widely accesible. Mr. Beard says this is about to change in near future. His words exactly:

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Flash memory in the last five years has come down 40, 50, 60 percent per year,
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Flash on a dollar-per-gigabyte basis will reach price parity, at some point, with hard disk drives in the next few years.
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In his talk with CNET, Beard also tries to explain why SSD technology is currently more expensive than hard drive technology. If you are interested, you can read the full interview here.
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.Sup
makes sense
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AMD+nVidia
Too long!

Hopefully, they'll make it much faster by then.
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Bonz(TM)
Good!

I need a drop before I adopt. As far as capacity, I'll stick with HDDs for quite a while. It will be a quite some time before 1-1.5TB SSD's are down to ~$80-120. And when it happens, we better have some fast RAID controllers to handle the speeds, along with Sata 3... and much faster networks! 10gbps will suffice... I guess...
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Mr. Beard says...
Thats all I needed to see for this to qualify as news.
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Originally Posted by Bonzâ„¢ View Post
Good!

I need a drop before I adopt. As far as capacity, I'll stick with HDDs for quite a while. It will be a quite some time before 1-1.5TB SSD's are down to ~$80-120. And when it happens, we better have some fast RAID controllers to handle the speeds, along with Sata 3... and much faster networks! 10gbps will suffice... I guess...
You guess!? Hahaha
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What of that little deterioration over time issue?
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Originally Posted by Weedvender View Post
What of that little deterioration over time issue?
Harddrives has it too, just more minor than with the SSD's.
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Originally Posted by gonX View Post
Harddrives has it too, just more minor than with the SSD's.
I'd be more comfortable with that if a better warranty existed on SDDs. I will pay the premium if I am guaranteed 5-years!
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Originally Posted by stargate125645 View Post
I'd be more comfortable with that if a better warranty existed on SDDs. I will pay the premium if I am guaranteed 5-years!
That is, if the warranty also covers standard wear and tear, right?
Because SSDs are less prone to random failures than HDDs are
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That is, if the warranty also covers standard wear and tear, right?
Because SSDs are less prone to random failures than HDDs are

What are you talking about? The whole point of a warranty is that it covers standard use - what you are less likely to get offered in a warranty is freak accident coverage.
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SSD prices may drop to match current offering, but capacity on HDD has been increasing steadly for years. I think it may be a long time before SSD become superior to HDD in all respects. Still, long before then I will probably ditch my HDD's and go for SSD sometime in the next two years.
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