udaman
Wannabe Storage Freak
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/08/05/micron.realssd.256gb/
All well and good to produce drives that are faster than almost any deskstop HD equivalent. Problem is as usual, low cost is in the eye of the purchaser. The MLC C200 series has spec's that beat Samsung's rumored intro of a 256GB SSD later this year, but will Micron's beat Samsung's price? Lexar isn't known for being a low price leader.
Several thousand $ for 250MB/s R/W is fine for enterprise markets, but not consumer level. Need 512GB SSD's at only max. 2x HD's price before any significant consumer interest will materialize, IMHO.
Hmm, the SATA-IO better hurry up with SATA 6Gb/s spec, as these new SSD's are near the theoretical bandwidth limit of SATA 3Gb/s- by the end of this year.
All well and good to produce drives that are faster than almost any deskstop HD equivalent. Problem is as usual, low cost is in the eye of the purchaser. The MLC C200 series has spec's that beat Samsung's rumored intro of a 256GB SSD later this year, but will Micron's beat Samsung's price? Lexar isn't known for being a low price leader.
Several thousand $ for 250MB/s R/W is fine for enterprise markets, but not consumer level. Need 512GB SSD's at only max. 2x HD's price before any significant consumer interest will materialize, IMHO.
Hmm, the SATA-IO better hurry up with SATA 6Gb/s spec, as these new SSD's are near the theoretical bandwidth limit of SATA 3Gb/s- by the end of this year.