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04-30-2011, 09:50 AM #1Newbie
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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.
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04-30-2011, 10:27 AM #2
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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04-30-2011, 10:43 AM #3Newbie
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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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04-30-2011, 11:05 AM #4Newbie
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Maybe 6 years,if doubling every 2 years.
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04-30-2011, 11:19 AM #5Junior Guru
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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/
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04-30-2011, 11:47 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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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 yearsLast edited by Maikon; 04-30-2011 at 11:53 AM.
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04-30-2011, 01:32 PM #7Web Hosting Guru
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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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04-30-2011, 01:37 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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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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04-30-2011, 06:24 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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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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04-30-2011, 06:47 PM #10Junior Guru
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2TB SSD? maybe around 5 years.
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04-30-2011, 10:18 PM #11Backup Guru
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In the standard 2.5" form factor, I'd say probably 2-3 years.
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04-30-2011, 10:37 PM #12Web Hosting Guru
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You could always use a raid array of SSDs.
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05-01-2011, 03:25 AM #13Web Hosting Master
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05-01-2011, 01:13 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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I would say 2 years. There is no way to predict this actually.
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05-01-2011, 01:18 PM #16WHT Addict
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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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05-01-2011, 02:21 PM #17Web Hosting Master
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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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