Solid State Hard Drives Unveiled

HenryTo · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:44 am Post subject: Solid State Hard Drives Unveiled

This will definitely solve the bottleneck in my laptop's performance. It is not the processor or the amount of memory anymore:

http://www.tfot.info/content/view/100/59/

HenryTo · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:05 am Post subject:

More than five years after our initial thread, SSDs (courtesy Intel) finally get near the $1/GB price point.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/computers/intel-launches-ssd-330-series-entry-level-drives-at-dirt-cheap-prices/7903

HenryTo · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:28 pm Post subject:

Morphlabs increases the stake by commercializing an all SSD cloud service.

http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/03/morphlabs-ssd-cloud/

HenryTo · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:04 pm Post subject:

SSDs sink to just $1.30/GB.

http://reviews.cnet.com/laptop-hard-drives/plextor-m3-px-512m3/4505-9997_7-35132056.html

HenryTo · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:58 am Post subject:

Best SSDs for the money.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-review-benchmark,3139.html

HenryTo · Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:59 pm Post subject:

Nearly at the $1/GB mark. Should be there by this summer.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5617/ocz-releases-180gb-and-360gb-models-of-agility-3

HenryTo · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:34 pm Post subject:

Latest thoughts on SSDs.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5067/understanding-tlc-nand

HenryTo · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:05 am Post subject:

Had no idea that all Intel employees (85,000 of them) have SSDs in their systems.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223939/Review_Intel_s_new_Cherryville_SSD_520_drive

HenryTo · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:04 pm Post subject:

SSDs expected to go mainstream later this year when the price per GB is expected to fall below $1.

http://money.msn.com/top-stocks/post.aspx?post=0e26d17d-5681-46a1-bfa5-494763a3d4a8

HenryTo · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:21 pm Post subject:

A practical review of SSDs from the TechBlog in the Houston Chronicle:

http://blog.chron.com/techblog/2011/09/a-solid-state-drive-is-a-sweet-computer-upgrade-too-bad-its-so-expensive/

HenryTo · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:01 pm Post subject:

Dell embraces SSDs:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/239691/dell_stuffs_over_1tb_of_ssd_storage_into_a_mobile_workstation.html

HenryTo · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:34 am Post subject:

Cost of SSD storage predicted to hit just $1/GB by the second half of next year:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/237854/samsung_aims_to_drive_up_tablet_storage_with_new_ssds.html

HenryTo · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 1:31 pm Post subject:

eBay goes SSD:

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2011/08/03/247497/eBay-boosts-virtual-servers-with-100-terabytes-of-flash.htm

HenryTo · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 12:39 am Post subject:

MSRP at $2/GB. But actual retail prices now at $1.50/GB for the latest SanDisk SSDs:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4538/sandisk-ssds-coming-to-your-pc

rffrydr · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:03 am Post subject:

Our "marginal" supplier, Japan, has been suspended:

http://newenterprise.allthingsd.com/20110321/japans-quake-cuts-into-supplies-of-raw-materials-used-in-chips/

Morgan Stanley points out a fluke of recent tight capacity is heavy inventories:

HenryTo · Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:04 am Post subject:

Still lingering at slightly over the $2/GB price point:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=21019