[citation][nom]surfer1337dude[/nom]Im not willing to buy until the price drops from roughly $2/gb to around $.75-.50/gb...[/citation]
you will have to wait till the 15~nm process than.
[citation][nom]Montezuma[/nom]SSDs are far to high, even for the increased performance of the drives. The fact that I can purchase a 64GB USB flash drive for around $50 USD, when a 64GB SSD is $100 USD(at best), or [usually] more. I know that a SSD will transfer data faster, outside of the drive, but that does not explain why SSDs cost so much more.A 512GB SSD should be between $200 to $300, or even a little lower. Once SSDs start getting into that price point, then sales will greatly increase. I would be willing to buy three or four, to add to my two current drives.These companies are abusing this supposed hard drive "shortage" to try and push a far more expensive technology. It isn't working.[/citation]
correct me if im wrong, but the thumbdrive is able to make more space by haveing more values... please someone make more sense out of that... but as a result its slower by a LARGE margin, slow to the extent that even as a boot, a normal hdd would be better.
i did the math based on a non price lowered ssd recently, per wafer they get about 21tb of space, and a wafer to my knolage costs 50000$ to make, at 10nm it will cost about 30cents per gb and at 5nm if possible it would cost about 6, and it would still be far higher cost than a hdd, and the hdd will probably be as fast as ssds are right now, minus the seak time, when the 10-5nm process comes into play.
[citation][nom]gallidorn[/nom]It is a very simple solution, but Intel can't see beyond it's own greed! Reduce the cost of SSD's to around $10 more than traditional hard drives of the same capacity. This would take over the hard drive market in record time.The higher quantities sold would out-way the price reduction and not only would they be profitable, but they would control the market![/citation]
this will never happen, unless we can make silicon wafers for an insanely low ammount of money, possibly a new process.
[citation][nom]Rds1220[/nom]No kidding the sales aren't picking up look at the prices. Maybe if the prices weren't so high for so few mb's of memory people would start buying more. I want to get 2 SSD's one for my dads build and the other for my other computer but Im not going to spend that much.[/citation]
get a 40ish gb boot drive, you will thank yourself later, even if its just os and some drivers.
[citation][nom]soldier37[/nom]I have one in my desktop and one in my lap and never looked back. Once you boot to windows in 12 seconds you wont look back either! Get one.[/citation]
its not the boot that get me, its all the accesses of programs that does, it clogs my current hdds, and is why i jumped on the intel ssd for 1$ a gb.
[citation][nom]NightLight[/nom]They should know this by now: cost is holding them back.The time has passed when you can exploit new technology for crazy prices.Everyone is too well informed about prices these days. Also, the reported hard disk crisis is just an excuse to keep the prices high.[/citation]
so the cost to make the chips suddenly doesn't cost 50k a wafer for about 21tb... wow i never knew.
ssds cost so much, not because they preform better, or because they can be priced that high, but because they have to.
[citation][nom]xxsk8er101xx[/nom]They're expensive and I don't need to boot up my computer in 2 seconds verses 5 seconds. i'm good with what I have until prices drop.[/citation]
its not, its also every program that getts accessed also. my hdd is about 120mbps, but the boot drive is at about 60 and get get hammered down to .7
its not all boot, its also the random accesses.
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