article on SSDs vs HDD

pretty informative, hope this hasn't been posted before..

http://www.computerworld.com/action...rticleId=9134468&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_feat

 

Economies of scale will drop SSD prices like a rock in the future, but for now HDDs give the best bang for the buck. I'm pretty sure notebooks in the future will all be using SSD technology.

 

Nobody however buys a SSD for it's 'bang for the buck' properties, so it's somewhat unfair to compare it on criteria it's never intended to target.

It's somewhat like saying an IGP has more 'bang for the buck' when it comes to power consumption in a 17" gaming notebook with hybrid graphics. Yes... but is really a meaningful benchmark?

 

I agree with the 1st half of your 1st statement , but you still have to keep value in mind. While not the only factor to consider, people are still going to have to think about value. No one who has lots of storage space is going to buy a SSD if that is their only hard drive bay and they dont want to carry around an external drive. You are correct that people who buy SSDs know this generally, it's still a factor in it's adoption as some people do care. To use another analogy, if you ignore value because "Nobody...buys a SSD for it's 'bang for the buck' properties", that's like saying value has no place in the purchase of Mazeratis because anyone who can afford one isn't looking for value. That's just wrong, and there's a reason why so many people drive Camerys...The difference between SSDs and Mazaratis is that Mazaratis are priced that way solely because it's a premium product, SSDs are priced that way largely because manufactoring costs exceed that of their disk platter bretheren. Yes, one day I can see SSDs phasing out HDDs, but it wont be because they are super-de-duper, but because they'll finally be priced competitively with HDDs. Bottom line, the biggest thing keeping SSDs from taking over is price, so you just can't say it's irrelevant.

 

So your saying a camry and a mazaratis cost the same to make? And yes they will replace HDD because they are super-de-duper. If they weren't there would be no point in replacing. SSD's at this time do to size and price only targeted at a specific audience, people who prefer speed, power consumption and durability over cost and size. That will be changing quite rapidly.

 

SSDs are cheap for the gain for the buck. not for the storage, but for the performance.

you can spend thousands of dollars on a fast computer, or just get an SSD, plug it in, and have an even faster computer made out of your existing system.

so, SSDs are a cheap way to get much speed. => cheap bang for the buck.

but not for storage, obviously. for that, HDDs will for a long long time be the best bang for the buck. except compared to cds / dvds maybe.



edit: btw, just to clarify: SSDs are cheap for what they bring to you, but not cheap per se.