Micron preps 256GB solid-state drive

[gkarris]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10005541-64.html

In a departure from many SSDs to date, the C200 is spec'd with a high-speed 3-gigabit-per-second Serial ATA (SATA) interface. A number of SSDs on the market today use a slower PATA (Parallel ATA) interface. The C200 products provide a read speed of up to 250 MB/s and a write speed of up to 100 MB/s, Micron said.

Put one of these in your MacBook! Or maybe in a Mini?

 

[imaketouchtheme]

If only I had $857454864......

 

[gkarris]

If only I had $857454864......

Micron Technology announced Tuesday that it will ship a series of solid-state drives next quarter ranging up to 256 gigabytes in capacity, but at one-third the price per gigabyte of existing drives.

 

[alphaod]

Ewww MLC.

 

[imaketouchtheme]

That's still the price of an 85 GB SSD drive.......Which is still like $950....

I could almost get an ENTIRE MACBOOK for that price.

 

[gkarris]

Prices will continue to drop....

Better deal than the first hard drive I ever bought - 52 Megs for $249...

 

[alphaod]

I would never pay 1/3 of the price to get 1/10 of the product life.

 

[Lone Deranger]

A very good point.

I would never pay 1/3 of the price to get 1/10 of the product life.

 

[gkarris]

I would never pay 1/3 of the price to get 1/10 of the product life.

So SSD is INFERIOR to Hard Disks?

Someone better tell the MacBook Air and iPod Touch product groups...

 

[alphaod]

So SSD is INFERIOR to Hard Disks?

No MLC SSDs (fore mentioned product) which is rated for 10,000 read/write cycles may cost 1/3 of the price of SLC SSDs (current expensive products), but SLC is rated for 100,000 read/write cycles. This amounts to around 20 years for MLC and 200 years for SLC for regular use; For aggressive use you can expect a tenth of those lives!

 

[mynameisshawn]

What kind of RPM would a HDD need to be equivalent to the read and write speed of a SSD?