[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]I wonder how many write cycles can the 20nm Flash take? Every Flash shrinkage usually results in reduction of max write cycles it can tolerate, requiring more wear-reduction measures.Though on the plus side, there's nothing wrong with SSDs being cheaper.[/citation]
well. if you use these as just a storage drive, where you install apps on and have the scratch disc elsewhere, the write tolerance isnt a problem at all. [citation][nom]merikafyeah[/nom]I would be EXTREMELY surprised if a consumer can wear out an SSD from purely maxing out the write count. 120 GB SSDs should last more than 5 years even if you were to write 10GBs to it every day non-stop for the whole 5 years.But 5 years from now would you still be using the same 120 GB drive? ALL things wear out in time, especially storage mediums, and they're replaced by newer, better technology. The only things that can be expected to reliably store data for decades are M-Discs, but those only store as much as a DVD (for now).[/citation]
old intel 60gb drive were tested at 100gb of data a day, and went on for what, 10 years...
granted old tech lasted longer, but point being, most home users out side of a scratch disc will never kill these drives on write alone unless they are being retarded on how they use them.
now as to in 5 years will we still use a 120gb drive...
yea... probably...
i have a 250gb drive from 9 years ago still going... its not a common day use drive anymore, but i could see using my current 2 year old intel ssd for another 3 to 6 years, i may replace it as a boot drive, but it would still be a drive that stays in common use.
[citation][nom]freggo[/nom]"Only 16GB" ... oh, how times have changed
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correct me if my math is wrong, but wouldn't that come out to 2gb a chip than...
i always just translate the number to be gigabyte and make assumptions that way instead of gigabit
it would be really nice if toms stopped using abbreviations when the abbreviation isn't obvious, and did a conversion for us into something more commonly used.
like how internet is rated at 75mbit but really comes to about 5-7 megabyte down
[citation][nom]adgjlsfhk[/nom]yes, but that means that 128 GB is only about 3.4x3.4 cm. Not that big[/citation]
quick math here
3.14x150^2
50000/70685 (waffer base price estimate)
.70 cents per square mm
3.4x3.4 = 1156
1156x.70
809$
and its at this point i realized that something is wrong in my math... or in current prices on wafferes, one of the two...