Samsung's 128GB SSD will be demonstrated in a notebook PC -write speed of 70MB/s and a read speed of 100MB/s

[j o a r]

On Jan 7, 2008, at 1:00 PM, objectwerks inc wrote:

> I don't think so.  Remember that disks are 8x that (almost an order  
> of magnitude) and are likely to keep growing in capacity.


8X is not all that much, and note that the HDs used for portables are  
often even smaller than these flash drives (though obviously most  
likely a lot cheaper).

I think that the interesting point is that this is already large  
enough to host system + apps + documents for the vast majority of  
people. Those who need more space already frequently buy secondary  
external drives for their pictures + music + video, and I expect that  
these secondary drives will still be regular HDs for years and years  
to come - As the most important factor is the price / volume ratio.

But with this in mind, it's interesting to consider how soon all  
systems sold by Apple could ship without a HD for mass storage. I  
remember when that was last the case, and when floppies were used  
instead. It was quite a while ago!

j o a r