Mushkin Announces 960GB Chronos SSD

From Ubergizmo;



The world of solid state drives (SSDs) continue to expand in terms of capacity and speed, and in the future, you will most probably find the classic hard drive being rendered obsolete – this is assuming that the price of flash memory will fall down to the level of hard drives, otherwise, there will always be the price vs performance issue to mull over. Mushkin intends to forge ahead with their latest 960GB Chronos solid-state drive that is tipped to ship from this month onwards.

You do not need a rocket scientist to tell you that a 960GB SSD is extremely rare in this day and age, and it will definitely cost you a bomb if you were to include it in your notebook. This is nearly double the storage capacity of a standard 2.5-inch form factor drive, and it will most probably target disk intensive applications like workstations and servers. The layperson is not going to fork out insane amounts of money for shaving off some seconds from their program loading sequence.

 

I've been waiting to see a 1TB SSD for quite some time. I'm getting excited, hopefully within a couple years they will be cheaper and by then this capacity SSD may be affordable!

 

Finally I can fit all my Steam games on one SSD, well, almost all

 

Lessee... people are going to spend more than $1,000 for 1TB of usable SSD space instead of roughly $95 for a 1TB 2.5" HDD?

I don't think so.

FWIW Newegg shows 3 big SSD units for sale, all of them rather pricey; a 600 GB Intel 320 ~ $900, a 1TB OCZ Octane ~ $2,500, and a new 960GB Mushkin (same as above? but out of stock) ~ $1,000.

Keep in mind that you have to not allocate all of the SSD space, in order to get better long term performance. So the true price of 1TB of usable space will soon settle out at ~ $1,300.

 

Yeah. The wait for SSD prices to become equivalent to HDD prices seems to be endless,,