Monolyth
04-05-07, 03:40 PM
SSD are the current perceived future. Looking back...
I can remember when a 30GB drives cost $300+ dollars [1] (http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/winchest.html). And don't tell me those drives weren't defective, look at the IBM Deskstar (Deathstar), or Western Digital's stream of drive failures post 1GB. Drives are much more reliable now then they have ever been and costs are down as well.
Given time Flash Drive technologies will follow the same path. However a critical step right now is getting into the consumer market. Notebooks are an excellent first step as notebooks are quickly starting to replace desktop PC's for many people and giving them an item that will significantly decrease power usage, heat output, and increase performance will win major points with the major notebook OEM's. And with the price/GB now in range of the consumer market this technology is going to blossom without the help the desktop community initially.
Would I recommend someone go out and buy a 32GB or 64GB flash drive for their desktop? Probably not, on a new laptop, yeah that would be a definite positive performance move. Match that with a big USB/1394 Hard-Drive and ur good to go. I would REALLY like to see more eSATA on laptops, performance of eSATA vs. USB/1394a is a huge difference. 1394b not so much, but an eSATA drive on a laptop could be used for game installs as well as important data. :)
I can remember when a 30GB drives cost $300+ dollars [1] (http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/winchest.html). And don't tell me those drives weren't defective, look at the IBM Deskstar (Deathstar), or Western Digital's stream of drive failures post 1GB. Drives are much more reliable now then they have ever been and costs are down as well.
Given time Flash Drive technologies will follow the same path. However a critical step right now is getting into the consumer market. Notebooks are an excellent first step as notebooks are quickly starting to replace desktop PC's for many people and giving them an item that will significantly decrease power usage, heat output, and increase performance will win major points with the major notebook OEM's. And with the price/GB now in range of the consumer market this technology is going to blossom without the help the desktop community initially.
Would I recommend someone go out and buy a 32GB or 64GB flash drive for their desktop? Probably not, on a new laptop, yeah that would be a definite positive performance move. Match that with a big USB/1394 Hard-Drive and ur good to go. I would REALLY like to see more eSATA on laptops, performance of eSATA vs. USB/1394a is a huge difference. 1394b not so much, but an eSATA drive on a laptop could be used for game installs as well as important data. :)