Samsung releases 256GB SSD

[Michael CM1]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10103645-64.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Too bad that pricing wasn't "immediately available," but I'm interested in the use of these now. These drives are now getting big enough to really consider. Now we just gotta wait for prices to drop. If one of these would keep the spinning beach ball from appearing a lot, that might be a fun birthday present.

 

[raymondu999]

Yeah. Anyone know when and for how much one of these can be ours?

 

[Michael CM1]

Yeah. Anyone know when and for how much one of these can be ours?

I'm betting on "coming soon!" and "do you want this or a 40-inch HDTV?"

 

[raymondu999]

Tell you what. I bet you a 256GB SSD that it'll be expensive

 

[rolex54]

its gonna be super expensive
but at least we are getting to larger size amounts
the least I would consider is a 256GB SSD

 

[kraftzwerg]

How much is the 128 GB version? I hope the 256 GB one will cost no more than double that ...

 

[mgpg89]

How much is the 128 GB version? I hope the 256 GB one will cost no more than double that ...

Keep on dreaming.
Price rates are usually exponential for these kind of things.

 

[mathcolo]

Keep on dreaming.
Price rates are usually exponential for these kind of things.

It has always been a roller coaster. It get released and surges high, then after a while it cools down a bit.

 

[convergent]

Yes, it will be super expensive... but prices on this stuff usually fall pretty rapidly. The good part is this is now sized large enough that it can replace a traditional drive without any big tradeoff in size. To me, I don't anticipate ever really needing a laptop drive bigger than this. Give it a year and then these will start really hitting mainstream I think. "Eventually", solid state drives are going to have to get cheaper than drives with mechanical components.