SSD Price Drops Signaling End of Spinning Media?

gjt writes "When Intel and OCZ recently announced new 'affordable' Solid State Disk drives — offering a meager 32-40GB — we initially yawned. But, then we took a closer look at the press releases and the in-progress research and development in SSD technology and opened our eyes. While the new drives aren't affordable on a cost per gigabyte basis for everyone, it does set a precedent — and most importantly a barometer price of $100. And it really does start the death clock for hard drive technology."

Child pornographers.

[MindlessAutomata]

Hard drives and very powerful magnets will still be the #1 choice for child pornographers.

Re:...Or an arms race

[MindlessAutomata]

200GB ought to be enough for anybody.

Re:In 5 years

[Yvan256]

If you get rid of the fans, there won't be any funny/troll posts about Microsoft, Apple and Linux.

Re:...Or an arms race

[Sperbels]

...and Floppies are the new punch cards...and punch cards are the new abacuses...and abacuses are the new ...what? Fingers and toes?

Re:...Or an arms race

[pitchpipe]

...and Floppies are the new punch cards...and punch cards are the new abacuses...and abacuses are the new ...what? Fingers and toes?

And the middle finger is the new raised eyebrow.

Re:This just in!

[Spazntwich]

Dammit man, I'm a slashdot troll, not a market researcher!

Re:...Or an arms race

[0123456]

This will completely gut the market for hard drives and R&D into them will cease. All money will move to SSDs and they will improve even more rapidly.

Indeed: no-one will ever need more than 200GB of storage.

Re:In 5 years

[K. S. Kyosuke]

On the other hand, you only need to install Windows ME, and you promptly get a fanless system.

Re:...Or an arms race

[Anonymous Coward]

A lot of things can change in 10 years. Just think back to the year 2000: computers only ran at 2-3 GHz and Linux was just getting into the mainstream!

Re:Who really needs SSDs for Porn?

[hotkey]

I mean really, who needs an expensive big SSD for your porn collection? Unless you have 12 monitors running porn simulcasting...

Who are you and how did you get into my home?

Re:In 5 years

[Skratchez]

Oh you younglings. Back when I worked with Charles Babbage all we had was brass and steam. Now all the dorks on the block are wearing aviator goggles and leather and calling themselves punks. Disgraceful behaviour. Just disgraceful.

Re:In 5 years

[tomhudson]

Everything is essentially analog when it comes back to the physical world.

My fingers are all digital, you insensitive clod!

Great for digital calculations.

And raising one of the middle ones signals "sign-extended mode".

You can have my digits when you pry them from my cold dead hands! :-)