Cheaper, larger SSDs on the way

[W1nTry]

I really do hope we see some REASONABLE figures for these drives... something at least comparable to raptors or dare I even suggest it, BETTER aka CHEAPER than raptors....

Intel's 34nm NAND SSDs launch in two weeks
Quick as a flash
By Sylvie Barak
Friday, 26 June 2009, 15:31

RUMOURS ARE growing louder that Intel will be launching new SSDs based on the firm's 34nm NAND chips within just a couple of weeks. Previous reports had said Chipzilla planned to come out with its new 34nm flash memory drives in Q4, but that timetable has been nudged up.

Solid State Drives (SSDs) have been around for a while, but their high costs, limited capacities and sometimes questionable reliability have ensured the drives have remained somewhat niche. But this is all about to change, apparently.

We've been told that with these new 34nm NAND SSDs, users can expect higher performance, higher capacities, and most importantly, lower prices.

Amongst the 34nm offerings hot off the production line will be a 320GB drive, plus 160GB and 80GB capacities too. But there very well could be more. Our sources tell us there will be drives big enough to replace the HDDs in most, if not all laptops.

Intel is said to be really optimistic about SSD prospects in 2010, especially considering the smaller and cheaper process node along with SSD specific optimizations built into Windows 7.

So brace yourselves for these new drives coming out in about two weeks, and watch as prices fall to lower levels. µ

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1406326/intel-34nm-nand-ssds-launch-weeks

[Spazosaurus]

I could handly myself one of those 320gig drives, but only if the price is $300us or less.

Bottom line, I not paying more than $1us per gig.

[Crixx_Creww]

i cant see myself putting out the dosh for a raptor so these things are all like... steups

$500 gfx card? sure
$600 small capacity hd... hmmzzz naww

porn looks same way @7200 rpm than @ 15 and whatever the hell an ssd would be equivalent of

[Spazosaurus]

The speed that your programs and games load at are markedly increased by even using a velociraptor (personal experience) and even more so for a good quality SSD. Still, one has to draw the line in the sand somewhere as in what is the max they are willing to pay per gb for that extra performance.

[W1nTry]

The bottleneck in todays PCs is throughput. Not memory bandwidth, not cpu power, but throughput. Think about it. We have gigabit ethernet (that we don't yet quite benefit from properly) we have massive amounts of processing power, where does it ALL pop down (other than software)? HDs meng. IF you can only load something at fractions of a GB but process at dozens of GBs... it's a no brainer. Hence why servers on SCSI raid 5 arrays have better app performance. It's all about throughput.