As well as archiving and backup's, games take more and more space some upwards of around 20Gb's so don't dismiss high capacities are irrelevant to quickly.
He wasn't implying that having a TB of storage space is pointless. Naturally many of us have large media collections. Heck, my music alone takes over 100GB. His point was that storing your programs/audio/video on an SSD is a spectacular waste of SSD technology. An oldschool 7200RPM drive is more then enough for these. This is because your storage will have a "relatively" few number of very large files, with little writing to the drive going on beyond the initial storage period. Once its on there, sure an SSD can open your files a few miliseconds faster, but is that worth even 50% more then the cost of a traditional hard drive?
Hospitals and Military applications are more apparent. There is a lot of database stuff taking place with multiple access points to the same data from multiple users. A regular drive would choke up and die quickly. An SSD is perfect. And in these situations storage space AND access time is a factor since these organizations store thousands of mid-to-large sized files that need to be accessed accross the organzation very quickly.
Point is, for a CONSUMER, which most of us here are, a large capacity SSD is more or less useless for the next 2-3 years (when costs will come down enough for it to be warranted). It IS relevant to us however, since the envelope is being pushed in this area, meaning the tech will trinkle down to consumer electronics eventually, and that is of course a good thing. But for the time being, an SSD is great for your main OS partition and common applications. You will notice almost no difference between storing your media/backups on an SSD vs. an HD.
All that being said, these drives have pretty sweet specs. 240/215 Read/write respectively are really good numbers. Almost SLC numbers. Any word on what these drives are? MLC/SLC? When I win the lottery (should be any day now), definetly will look to pick one of these up I think...
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