2008, The Year of Solid State Storage

An anonymous reader writes "At CES, SSD drives were a plenty on the show floor. "Some companies said we could see 250GB SSD units by the end of this year, while others predicted it could take up to a couple of years for them to become mainstream. None of the companies promised mainstream adoption, but they promised a bright future and we are inclined to believe them. High capacity drives are going to be expensive due to their very nature of early technology and gradual adoption rate."

Wait...

[mc moss]

I thought this was the year of the Linux desktop.

Re:Lets try the other way around, eh

[Lars Clausen]

What? Do they now have a CD drive that can read any part of the disc with no moving parts? Cool!

No, but I don't expect my laptop to have an internal CD drive, for as rarely as I need it I'm fine with an external one. Also saves space and power, not to mention the internal "gotta spin up the CD just for fun" symptom.

-Lars

Re:Lets try the other way around, eh

[alexhs]

nobody wants to use magnetic over solid state anyway

Oh, but I've heard that magnetic data has a warmth and nuanced feeling that SSD harsh data doesn't have...
Already that magnetic drives weren't all that good [slashdot.org] to start with...

Re:Lets try the other way around, eh

[LooseBrie]

Can't wait to get the last mechanical pieces out of my computers.

I'm intrigued how you read CDs/DVDs. I'm also interested how you keep your machines cool.

Re:Lets try the other way around, eh

[Anonymous Coward]

You magnetophiles really take the cake ... I suppose next you'll be telling us that if we can't tell the difference on our monitors between data pulled from a simple SSD as compared to your overpriced magnetic platter storage with wooden control knobs and monster cable connecting everything together, it's because our vision isn't discriminating enough.

Re:So we are back to RAM drives!

[ch-chuck]

I always setup a ram disk for swap space - it's so much faster than regular drives.

Re:Lets try the other way around, eh

[fenrisulfur]

"Four years into their 90-day mission" Priceless