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To: Joe NYC who wrote (228400)	3/19/2007 10:46:28 AM
From: aleph0	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Why bother with 10,000 rpm ! ...the SSDs are on their way! 32 GB for ca. 350$ ! I intend to get one (for my desktop) as soon as they are priced at say 200-250$ .. 32GB is enough for "C:\" i.e. I'll be using only it as my system-partition. The old SATA drive will just get moved up 1 partiton.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (228400)	3/19/2007 2:14:46 PM
From: NicoV	Respond to of 275872

There's not much choice right now, there's only the Western Digital Raptor drive. I used to have a couple of first generation 37GB WD Raptors. They were too loud for me, and I gave them to a gamer who didn't care about this. I now have the latest 140GB Raptor, and it is very quiet. When it's not seeking it's probably not louder than a recent 7200 rpm drive. That 's a lot quieter than the drives of a couple of years ago. Flash needs to get an order of magnitude more inexpensive before it can compete with current hard disks. By the time flash gets there, hard disks will also have moved on to lower price/bit. For the moment, hybrid drives seem to be the only mass marketable option. Given Spansion claims that they have scaling advantages compared to NAND flash, and the general comments about scaling to become very difficult by the 22nm node, this could mean that it could become very difficult to make flash an order of magnitude more inexpensive.