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To: Sam who wrote (30886)	1/6/2006 10:36:54 AM
From: inaflash	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

"Samsung's solid-state disks will be puny, pricey, and impractical" from January IEEE Spectrum spectrum.ieee.org; How can they be so right and yet so wrong? Their data is fairly correct, but they're wacking flash with high end/server specs. For example, I was wondering where they got 80 MB/s read/write speeds, when the 1" drives have "Sustained data rate up to 10.0 MB/sec" (http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.7ac4c50322419b5daa67bca4bac4f0a0/). I think it's the same discrepancy when they figure 60-70x in cost. On that note, their pricing is already stale, and you can probably slice it in half for 2006. Overall, I agree, solid-state disks won't take over the world in 2006, but I doubt anyone claimed it would. I predict that commercial space travel will not begin in 2006 at $100,000 per seat. So what? Exactly.