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Posted - 2009.07.27 01:48:00 -
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 Originally by: Sobach
You're not gonna see SSD matching mechanical HD in cost per GB anytime soon, if ever. Currently the technology prevents the use of SSD as a cost-effective mass media storage device, but it absolutely blows away the mechanical drives when used as the OS/Programs drive, it's like comparing a Ferrari with your feet.
The price is not "unreasonable", it's just the premium one pays to have the latest and newest tech, just like always, and the new Intel's gen-2 X-25m 80GB drive costs about the same as a 2TB drive. Not a whole lot more than 32gb, but @ 80gb you can probably put most if not all of your regularly used programs on there, and that $200 will give you a far more responsive PC than any other upgrade you can do to your PC
How many people can, possibly, be considered a power user? And how many of those 'power users' are going to rush out and buy an 80GB HD that costs as much as a 2TB? These SSD's, while being super fast, are not useful for the average PC user or gamer because they're just too small. Right now all SSD manufacturers are milking it for what it's worth and that's why it's so expensive, unless you're telling me the technology is so complicated that it's impossible to make these drives cheap. If that's your position then I suggest you look into these drives, the technology is so simple it's ridiculous. The only problem these drives have is the controller, and even that is being milked.
While $200 will give me an amazing upgrade to my PC it will not yield the storage that I need.
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My FRAPS alone is over 500GB and that's after sorting through it Neutral 1GB for a mere 50 seconds...
For the average person it is unreasonable to ask more for an 80GB drive than for a 2TB. Do you really think it matters whether Windows boots up in 5 seconds or 30 to those who boot their Win 98 PC, type something, print it, then turn their PC off? There're still a lot of people who use Win 98 and XP. Those who know what they are doing with their PC's are the minority and those who care, can afford and want to spend money on an SSD are, really, the minority of that minority.
The only thing that can drop the prices of these SSD's is competition and I hope more manufacturers start 'producing' them. Prices will be forced down and the consumer will be the winner, not the manufacturers.
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