Comments on: SSD Price War Begins

By: Alex Gorbachev

Alex Gorbachev — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:28:49 +0000

Thanks for nice post.
Similarly, we discussed SanDisk announcement for 32 GB drives and how they great they might be for database storage market - http://www.pythian.com/blogs/357/sandisks-600-solid-state-drive-could-be-a-game-changer-62mbs-7000-iops-in-its-first-rev

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:11:17 +0000

Miro,

Unfortunately, as you know, all factors matter …. reliability, size, speed and cost, depending on which market segment you look.

Non-degrading write capability, coupled with low cost, are still key factors.

Larger capacity enables an opportunity for further internal innovation, which will result in higher cost…. with a smaller impact on the overall cost /GB.

By: Miro

Miro — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:58:11 +0000

Good news, 64GB by the end of the year is pretty good news for the mobile users. Given that the corporate users are getting mobile these days (not just the road warriors) and that 64GB is all most of them need - these are bad news for the HDD vendors.

The only serous defense they can mount is to increase dramatically the size of the HDDs (with some technologies saved for rainy days) and try to make SSDs irrelevant.

Sorry guys, its not the size that matters, its how you use it.

Of course some of them can always just buy an SSD vendor and survive the fall…
Samsung for example sells both HDDs and SSDs