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SSD Prices in a Free Fall

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Re: SSD Prices in a Free Fall

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Post by toomuchtodo »

forscha wrote: post #2

Is the hdd demise indeed expected so quickly?

It appears so.

"By packing 32 or 64 times the capacity per die, 3D NAND will allow SSDs to increase capacity well beyond hard drive sizes. SanDisk, for example, plans 8 TB drives this year, and 16 TB drives in 2016. At the same time, vendors across the flash industry are able to back off two process node levels and obtain excellent die yields."

Goodnight spinning disk; you've served us well.

Re: SSD Prices in a Free Fall

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Post by nolok »

forscha wrote: post #2

Is the hdd demise indeed expected so quickly?

Not entreprise grade but consummer, and totally anecdotal, but I've bought a 500 GB Samsung EVO 840 SSD for less than 200€ a month ago. Given the specs (performance and capacity) of that drive and my previous experience about a year and a half ago buying a 120 GB SSD, I expected to pay maybe twice that ?

Even if the price fall slows down a bit, we're quickly getting to a point where I don't see why you would buy a SSD at home for anything other than your consummer NAS or similar. Anyone who tried a SSD surely isn't willing to go back to HDD for anything other than their "archive/storage" drive. And if this article prediction is true, soon even that will be taken by SSD.

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Post by hbbio »

In a side-note in the article, the author mentions that Amazon Glacier runs on tape. Although I'm not sure Amazon officially explained the technology, I heard (and read on Wikipedia) that they store data on conventional HDDs, that are however kept "offline".

Has anyone here some more knowledge about that?

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Post by snowwrestler »

forscha wrote: post #2

Is the hdd demise indeed expected so quickly?

SSDs need to be powered up fairly often to maintain data integrity. So, they're great for the drives in computers, but for external or backup drives--which might only be powered up occasionally, spinning magnetic disks will still be a better choice for a while, it seems.

edit: maybe not. Bringing this article up from samcheng's post below:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-...

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Post by _dark_matter_ »

hbbio wrote: post #5

In a side-note in the article, the author mentions that Amazon Glacier runs on tape. Although I'm not sure Amazon officially explained the technology, I heard (and read on Wikipedia) that they store data on conventional HDDs, that are however kept "offline". Has anyone here some more knowledge about that?

Yes please. I was also intrigued by this statement. I was under the impression that Amazon never told what the "secret sauce" was behind Glacier. Looking at Wikipedia now, it seems there are still multiple contending theories.

Also, is it true that the service is not very popular? Are people here using it or similar?

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Post by Retra »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #3
forscha wrote: post #2

Is the hdd demise indeed expected so quickly?

It appears so. "By packing 32 or 64 times the capacity per die, 3D NAND will allow SSDs to increase capacity well beyond hard drive sizes. SanDisk, for example, plans 8 TB drives this year, and 16 TB drives in 2016. At the same time, vendors across the flash industry are able to back off two process node levels and obtain excellent die yields." Goodnight spinning disk; you've served us well.

They already seem so clunky and primitive!
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