Re: [Thinkpad] Solid State Disks SSD

From: Donald MacQueen <dmacq_at_erols.com>
Date: Sat Jan 13 2007 - 09:05:01 EST

Jonathan Berry wrote:

>Aryeh wrote:
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>>Right now, SSDs seem to go
>>for about $115.00USD to $315.00USD per GB, which makes them still fairly
>>pricey compared to their rotating media counterparts.
>>
>>
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>
>No kidding. With the Samsung 32GB SSD looking like about a $900
>item, I'm hoping that other, slower devices will have to meet
>the market at less than $30 a GB. About $19 / GB would meet my
>price point of $150 for an 8GB SSD.
>
>
>
How well do these things stand up to the millions of read/writes that
would occur if the SSD were used instead of a primary hard drive? I
thought I read somewhere that they had a limited number of r/w cycles.
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