Linked by JayDee on Thu 25th Jun 2009 20:28 UTC
"The magnetic hard disk's tenure as a critical part of the storage technology mosaic is entering its sixth decade, and it shows no sign of ending any time soon. However, certain limitations imposed by rotating media have been coming to the fore lately, and SSDs, which can in theory resolve all these problems, have long been hailed as the eventual successor technology for mass storage. If UK-based startup Dataslide has its way, though, magnetic recording media will get at least one last hurrah, in the form of a new technology called Hard Rectangular Drive."
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SSD software can fix the slowdown problem and current generation SSD are 3 time faster than HDD, so the future -is- bright for SSD and inevitably dark for HDD (over a long period of time)
I wish the future was brighter than a pen light with flat batteries. Right now here is the price for:
Intel Solid State Drive X25-E Extreme 32GB SATA 2.5" - NZ$947.25
G.SKILL TITAN Series FM-25S2S-256GBT1 2.5" 256GB SATA II Internal MLC Solid state disk - NZ$1392
At the current pace, I'll be close to dead by the time it gets within a price range mere mortals can afford. That doesn't include the problems when it comes to fragmentation, slow downs, crappy controllers, the fact that one has to use a controller adds a host of power consumption to the equation that would exist if there was a way to avoid having to trick the system into thinking it is a disk.
Magnetic storage will continue to hang around for the next 5 years because not only is it GET (Good Enough Technology) but because the flash producers collude to ensure that the prices don't drop; as soon as the price of flash storage start to drop - all the flash vendors cut back their product to boost up the price. You can't honestly expect me to believe that a synchronised cut in production is due to coincidence rather than cartel like behaviour.
Edited 2009-06-26 12:14 UTC