SSD Won't Make Sense In Laptops For Two Years

kgagne writes "While solid state disk drives can vastly improve random read performance and are perfectly suited to most mobile devices, many operations are sequential in laptops and desktops and involve writes where SSDs most often lose to magnetic hard disk drives in performance. While introducing multi-channel flash memory controllers and interleaving the NAND flash chips increases performance, it will still be about two years before the cost versus benefit ratio will make sense to install SSD in your laptop or desktop PC, according to a Computerworld story. '"I think you need to get to 128GB for around $200, and that's going to happen around 2010. Also, the industry needs to effectively communicate why consumers or enterprise users should pay more for less storage," says Joseph Unsworth, an analyst at Gartner Inc.'"

Re:I completely agree

[frosty_tsm]

Think of one of those laptop cooler pads except 15 pounds of battery instead of a couple of fans inside.

Imagine the explosion you can get out of that!

Re:120GB is too much.

[rockout]

My MacBook Air doesn't have a DVD player, you insensitive clod!

Oh, wait....

Re:Advertising

[rthille]

Go on ebay and buy yourself an apple II

Re:I completely agree

[ILuvRamen]

they're busy buying other underperforming, overpriced, glitchy, new, status symbol crap: Apple products. So then the key is to put the SSDs in Apple products of course. Think about it, that would actually work. Rich Apple customers love paying more for anything that sounds fancy.

Re:120GB is too much.

[Walter Carver]

The HDD may cost less but:

1. you can't through an HDD at the other side of the room and survive
2. HDDs can be written again, DVDs can't which gives them the benefit in case of an error

Re:120GB is too much.

[morgan_greywolf]

man rm

Oh f****! I read that as 'rm man'! I was in /usr/bin as root at the time! Crap! Now I can't read any man pages! Anyone know how to fix this? I would RTFM, but I can't anymore!