They have just created magnetic storage <http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/43042/135/> which holds 3 orders of magnitude more data in the same space. Your 500GB disk could then hold 500,000GB.
The real question then becomes, "How much is enough?" If 100-500GB is fine for you, then SSDs at their eventual price of $10 or so will be fine. But if you want to hold all your HiDef movies for trips, or eventually 3D HD movies, then you may appreciate 500TB. So I don't think the storage battle is over. Not only are all prices falling, and capacity growing, but our applications are growing too. Wasn't 640kb enough RAM a little while ago.... And then there's cloud computing. How old-fashioned is "local storage"? HDs already have 2-32MB+ of cache RAM. It would make more sense to have more, and cheaper, flash instead. A variation on the storage hierarchy. Vista's Ready-Boost is already doing this. Peace, tOM On Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 11:05, RayBay <[email protected]>wrote: > >Disks are 5x cheaper now, but the projections are for more rapid price drops >for solid state than >happened for hard drives.... even the 40 and 80 GB ones... > >and that five years from now, 80 percent of the market will be going to solid >state drives between 160 >GB and 400 GB at prices similar to what hard drives go for today... The price >drops we have seen >since 2003 have been breathtaking... Who then thought we could eventually buy >160 GB drives for >$57 and 320 GB for $80 back then, or 80 GB drives for $33 to $39 which I saw >yesterday. > >The initial affect will be on New laptops. As soon as the new solidstate >drives prove reliable, we will >see marketing switch... maybe even by the Christmas market this year, but >certainly by high school >and college graduation next May. > >The solid state drives do not work well yet, but all the memory makers are >already dividing up the >market... the first one to figger it out will likely be Samsung... with >Fujitsu, Seagate, and Toshiba close >behind.. The first problem to overcome is how to make them work better than >they do now... >reliability, then speed, and size will come later. > >Not many people need 500Gb drives, and they are not selling well, even at >$100, because long-term >reliability is still in question > > >RB >On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:28 AM, tOM Trottier <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, June 06, 2009 at 0:54, > STeve Andre' <[email protected]>wrote: > >| But 500G disks are less than $100, so getting one (or six) is reasonable if >| you are lusting for more space. >| >| The writing is on the wall however; SSDs will catch up and eventually kill >| hard disks. While I'm waiting for a 8T disk in my thinkpad (just as I lusted >| after 300G in my laptop in '99), we're going to have to live with disks a >| bit longer. > >Depends. Disks are still 5x cheaper for the same amount of storage, and new >technology >seems to keep this trend going, as well as making them faster. Now if the >diskmakers >start to put some flash cache on their disks, and load it up with the boot >stuff when they >turn off, they would likely keep the workstation market. > >The server market will likely be mostly flash, not just for fast access, but >to reduce >power. > >tOM-- >"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a >country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast >down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, >while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and >you have no such accurate remembrance of country you >have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle." ~ >Ernest Hemingway >tOM Trottier +1 613 860-6633 >http://Information.Architecture.Abacurial.com >Est-ce c'est necessaire d'imprimer ce courriel? / Do you >really need to print this email? > > >_______________________________________________ >Thinkpad mailing list >[email protected] >http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > > > > -- Absum! -- tOM Trottier +1 613 860-6633 [email protected] 469 Ancaster Ave, Ottawa, ON K2B 5B6 Canada http://Information.Architecture.Abacurial.com P Est-ce c'est necessaire d'imprimer ce courriel ? Do you really need to print this email? PUBLIC NOTICE: Any use of this message, in any manner whatsoever, will increase the amount of disorder in the universe. Although no liability is implied herein, the consumer is warned that this process will ultimately lead to the heat death of the universe. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
