So whats next for SSDs

What is next for SSDs?? After SATA 3 i don't see them becoming any faster, or am i wrong? Anyway I believe the future of SSDs is currently cheaper SSDs, right. So how long do you guys think before we can buy SSDs at at least 1$/gb?? Prices have almost dropped to half from last year, so do you expect another year before SSDs become 1$/gb or longer??

 

I posted a thread few days ago that noone thought was interesting apparantly. Anyhow, SATA will support up to 1600 MB/s. Now we have a limit of 600MB/s.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/solid-state-drives-ssds-flash-storage/602482-sata-express-sata-3-2-a.html

Price of SSDs have been pretty stable if you ask me. A C300 which is oooold still cost $1.6-1.7/GB. Samsung 470 down to like $1.5/GB. Long way to go to $1/GB.

 

You can get em for $/GB on sale.

However they wont be sata3.

I've seen 120gb vertex2 for about 120-130 on sale.

 

Hardly much movement in prices the last 6-8 months.

C300 costs more than the newer M4, because it uses larger NAND.

$1.5/GB is typically about the best I see on fairly recent SSDs. Occasionally a bit lower, but not on major brands.

 

Speed is not the only area for innovation in SSDs.

Intel currently has Smart Response Technology (SRT) for their desktop z68 chipset, and hopefully for notebooks too soon.

What is SRT?
It combines a small SSD 20GB or larger, with a regular harddrive. It gives you 90% of the performance of an SSD, with the benefit of the larger and cheaper storage of a harddrive. The user only sees one drive in their OS, all the caching is done behind the scenes.

Check out PCPer.com review of intel SRT. They gave it an editors choice award.

Intel Smart Response Technology: SSD Caching on Z68 Tested | PC Perspective

 

I haven't heard of many recent breakthroughs, so I guess they'll just slowly inch alone until the performance starts to plateau. After that, then I guess they'll start trying (trying, emphasis on trying) to bring down costs. And eventually, NAND and controllers might be jacked directly onto motherboards and be used as direct onboard caches.

 

You're right on both counts. But it looks like embedded iSSD are on the market, or will be soon, in tablets and other small form factors I'm guessing.

SATA-IO outs new SATA Express and Embedded SSD standards, acronyms abound -- Engadget

It's a big day for SATA-IO, as the organization has just announced not one, but two new SATA standards. The first of these, the SATA Express specification, gets the latter half of its name from the 'e' in PCIe, as it will allow current SATA standards to piggyback on the PCIe interface, boosting speeds to 8Gbps and 16Gbps, up from the current 6Gbps. SATA Express is expected to make its official debut later this year. SATA µSSD, on the other hand, is currently ready to go, and already implemented in SanDisk's iSSD embedded drive. It ditches the module connector from the old interface, allowing OEMs to stack single-chip drives right on the motherboard. A plethora of SATA-related press releases awaits you after the break -- if you're into that sort of thing.