Solid State Disk

[Pimp]

Hello

I am very interested in the new solid state disk which are meant to be much much faster then the conventional hard drives that we all have. But at the moment they are ridiculously over priced e.g £600 for 64 GB. Does anyone know when they will become cheaper to buy and bigger in capacity also more regularly available. ?

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[rimmer]

I`d wait till these things go mainstream, they are crap in terms of capacity, brilliant in every other way. Wait till bus speeds increase, even SATA is too slow to keep up with the demands of these drives. I`d say wait until at least 2015

 

[donkey42]

2015

maybe a bit too long, but, then again, sat nav devices have come down in price lately, however, i can't remember when sat nav's were released

as with everything in this country, the longer you can live without something new, the cheaper it will be, so yeah, about 2015 will probably be sufficient time to have solid state drives cheaply

 

[Pimp]

No way not that long i reckon it will take no more then 2-3 years. Because of the gaming industry demanding more and more powerful computers to run the games they create i think that people will start to switch over to solid state as they are much faster then the conventional hard drives giving the user much better performance can cut up boot time in half. Also i heard that Samsung are going to release a 150GB version (don't know when) so already your getting high capacity disks but i think price will still be to high.

At the moment Overclockers are selling a Samsung 64GB for £567.
Yes its expensive but look:
- No spin up
- No seek time
- No rotational latency
- Sustained high-speed data transfers
- Can cut boot-up time in half

 

[donkey42]

the gaming industry demanding more and more powerful computers to run the games they create

good point, but personally i'd wait until at least 2012, as sat nav's have only just become available for less than about £70, i remember them costing about £400, but, if you gotta have the latest stuff, you will have to pay[ot]through the nose for it[/ot]

 

[Matt555]

Are you just using Sat-Nav as an example as I don't see how Sat-Nav relates to large-capacity SSD's?

Anyway, it all depends on how quickly the technology becomes cheaper to produce - it all just takes time, sometimes it happens quickly, sometimes it takes years.

 

[Pimp]

I totally agree with Matt555 it depends on the manufacturers been able to produce these products cheaper in order for them to sell them at a reasonable price. But also it depends on how keen the market is on changing to a new type of storage device and whether there is a significant advantage to switching to SSD's.

 

[Swansen]

even SATA is too slow to keep up with the demands of these drives.

Where did you find that??? Secondly, the PC gaming market is a very small one in the whole world of computer hardware. I highly doubt their eyes are on pc gamer kids, as they don't have $1000 to drop on a hard drive. But the sat nav and mobile electronics, ie storage space for music or videos rather than a disc changer. All that aside, and like everyone else is saying, its impossible to say for sure how long and how low the prices will drop to, but for them to have any real relevance in the storage market, they need to get up around 100gb first. So, once they get there which won't probably be for another year or so, they still have to work on creating a cheaper manufacturing process, which will take another couple years or so. So, my guess it will be something like three to four years before they get to the point where they might be put in any sort of pre-built computer. (maybe like two years for an extreme gamers PC, but all this is just pure speculation anyway.)

 

[rimmer]

Well maybe once they start complying with full SATA 2 bus speeds, we will actually see an even bigger improvement.
Personally, I won't pay any more than £100 on a hard drive or in this case, solid state disk. Plus I won't make do with anything less than 80GB

 

[Pimp]

the PC gaming market is a very small one in the whole world of computer hardware. I highly doubt their eyes are on pc gamer kids

Totaly disagree with you, dont understand where you got that idea that the gaming industry is small ? and that its only kids/teenagers who play it. Also you are not including the video gaming industry too they play a big part aswell (even bigger then computer games). Firstly if you look at the report issued by esa (entertainment software association) for the year 2004-2005. It states that the average age for a gamer is 33, and that in those two years nearly 600 million units of computer + video games where sold.The gaming industry is worth in those two years over $7billion, now how can you say that it is small ?

By the way if your wondering why its 2004-2005 its becuase the report is every two years so a 2006-2007 report should come out soon.

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL REPORT

 

[Swansen]

Yeah, maybe world wide, and the whole kids thing was an exaggeration. But seriously, the PC gaming market is a small one, i don't care what you think, its small. Most large manufacturers don't look to PC gaming when they are making decisions, comparatively, the regular consumer computers and at an even larger market the business computer industry dwarf the market that is computer gaming. Thats just how it is, now i'm not saying it hasn't gotten bigger than it used to be, its just not that large of a market, and i'm not the only one who know this, even in these forums. I will say however, that the PC gaming world is definitely a factor in driving development, especially in the multimedia area.

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(no real mention of PC gaming)

 

[eurosong]

Solid state drives sound great to me: not so much because of speed, but because of reliability. Something with no moving parts is bound to be more robust than something which spins continuously!