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    How many years before we see a 2tb SSD?

    I know its a silly question, but would anyone dare put a ballpark figure on it? Would solve a lot of high performance computing problems we are facing at the minute, especially if the price was on par with traditional hard disks.

    Please discuss away, I find I can learn a lot just by watching you guys discuss things like this. =)

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    I think we see them within the next year or 2. Manufacturers probably already have them sitting on a shelf at HQ somewhere but we all know how they trickle out technology so we have to keep upgrading.
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    Maybe 3/4 years. They probably will release a smaller version first so we spend our money on it.

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    Maybe 6 years,if doubling every 2 years.

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    I guess it will still take at least 5 years for the prices of SSD's to lower. Also, there was already a news about a 2TB SSD drive from OCZ last year :
    http://www.guru3d.com/news/ocz-2tb-s...transfer-rate/

    Though, I'm not sure whether they actually made it to the commercial market or just hidden themselves inside the corporate world
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    heres 5tb ssd from iodrive
    http://www.fusionio.com/products/iodriveoctal/
    honestly i would expect ssd price to have below 50 cent per gb in 10 years. we havent really seen any significant ssd price changes for the psat 3 years
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    About 2 years ago.

    2TB SSD has been around for a long time by now. You can get it everywhere:

    http://www.hotdealshop.com/html/prod...=31939FR032511
    http://www.upgradebay.com/c1_itemdet...emid=169287249

    As someone else pointed out, you can get 5TB SSD these days.

    If what you're really asking is when will the price of SSD be on par with HDD, the answer is likely to be "never." Sure the price of SSD is dropping, but so is the price of HDD. There will always be a big price gap between the 2.

    Note that when I talk about "price" here, I'm talking about $/Byte as the measure. In terms of $/IOPS, SSD is already hundreds of times *cheaper* than HDD.

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    I think the price of flash based SSD will start falling when they start making MRAM based SSDs.

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    Man that MRAM seems awesome. But the tech industry is fraught with examples of great tech that never got commercialised because of business reasons. MRAM seems to be suffering the same fate. Flash memory and DRAM is a lot less riskier for manufacturers to make than MRAM so that is what is holding its production back.

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    2TB SSD? maybe around 5 years.

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    In the standard 2.5" form factor, I'd say probably 2-3 years.
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    You could always use a raid array of SSDs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maikon View Post
    heres 5tb ssd from iodrive
    http://www.fusionio.com/products/iodriveoctal/
    honestly i would expect ssd price to have below 50 cent per gb in 10 years. we havent really seen any significant ssd price changes for the psat 3 years
    Those fusionio's almost scare me how fast they are. They were scary fast 2 years ago, and now are even faster. One of those cards can push over 1 million IOPS, simply amazing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DMEHosting View Post
    Those fusionio's almost scare me how fast they are. They were scary fast 2 years ago, and now are even faster. One of those cards can push over 1 million IOPS, simply amazing.
    The prices scare me more
    To OP's question: RAID.

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    I would say 2 years. There is no way to predict this actually.
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    I look forward to the day I can get a 2TB SSD to fit in my MacBook Pro I think I might need something newer then SATA II to handle its goodness! But I hope to start seeing this in the next year or two in the market for a reasonable price, say under $200 USD.

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    By the time there are 2TB SSDs there will be 10TB HDDs.

    I think the demand for large SSDs isn't there, sure if it was the same price per GB as a HDD then why not, but not at the current price difference.
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