[General] Samsung develops 256GB solid state drive

[Majed B.]

I read the news summary over /. and I found the last part funny:
"A 256GB capacity is getting large enough to replace hard-drives for
good — now just the prices just need to come down further for large
capacity SSDs."

They forgot something more important than price: Reliability!
SSDs are like USB memory sticks, suffer from a major reliability issue
which is the limited number of writes on a block. The article mentions
no improvement on that side, so I'm assuming the recent figures still
stand: 25 writes per block, and after that, *poof* the block is no
longer usable.

Even with smart controllers that distribute data randomly or
selectively over blocks, people would want fast disks for fast
operations, and most likely to read & write a lot, not just to "store
fast," which means that the wear factor is very high.

Unless they get another technology to replace the existing one causing
such reliability issues, it's not worth the money, in my opinion.

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi
<bashar at kuwaitnet.net> wrote:
> i wonder how much it will cost if 64GB is 600ish-800ish
>
> http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9952007-1.html
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