Comments on: Will 2009 finally become the year Solid State Disk goes mainstream?

By: JR

JR — Wed, 28 May 2008 07:38:56 +0000

I will say that 80GB drives are plenty for my portable needs. I don't watch movies or play games on portable PC's so all i need is Win XP, MS Office, Visual Studio 2005/2008 and 20GB or so for my music :)

By: KG

KG — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:55:41 +0000

I'm still waiting for prices on 16 & 32 gb ssds to drop. I got the 4gb ssd HP mini because it's ultimately cheaper to add a hd to it than to add a 4 or 8 gb ssd to one of the other models. I haven't noticed the heat & fan issues those with hd bases minis post about, so I'm very sure I won't swap in a hd.

A sdhc adds cheap storage, but is just another item to possibly lose. If late summer's newest subnote offerings don't pique my interest, I'll commit to the mini by purchasing a larger ssd.

By: pablo

pablo — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:19:12 +0000

Quite simple. The day our local neighborhood guinea pigs^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htechnological early adopters AKA James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel have SSD's in the house will be the year the solid state disk goes mainstream! ;)

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:51:17 +0000

Alan, SuperTalent already offers a 120 GB SSD with the cheaper MLC technology for $699. That's $5.83 per gigabyte, not $16. I think Samsung can get that down to around $4 or less per gig, which gets us close to $1,000.

Here's the SuperTalent info from earlier this month: http://www.jkontherun.com/2008/05/supertalent-lau.html

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:41:33 +0000

I doubt it would go that cheap... SSDs are coming in at $16 a gig nowadays.. And while MLC might make it a little cheaper, I can't see
this going for less than $1000, much less $2000.

I do, however, hope I'm wrong.