Comments on: Intel set to take leap in solid-state drives

Company is planning to bring out high-capacity solid-state drives to compete with SanDisk, Toshiba, and Samsung.

[LcdGreg]

I've known since cartridge video game days that no moving parts = faster computing, now more so since the read speeds are actually faster than hard drives, it may take a few years but maybe the capacity will as well exceed hard drives which currently can fit 500 GB in a 2.5" drive, I'm sure that they will milk it for profits a long while though!

[the_inventor]

Garbage In = Garbage Out. Flash memory is unreliable over time.

The cost of having PERMATELY FIXED storage is too high.

Read about the real future from someone who predicted solid state storage in 1980 but
has since moved on to Spintronics and Holographics storage.

http://colossalstorage.net

[eyetexasbob]

The life span of the SSD is 50-100 years, depending on who you believe. For most of us, that is plenty of time. The only permanent storage is the mind of God. While colossal storage is cool, in theory, the SSD is now. If you are looking for sometime that lasts eternally, avoid human inventions.

[satanmode]

can anyone explain WHY write cycles wear out a SSDs, all i read on the internet is that there is a limitation to every block written.
is it the semiconductor that wears out after a million electric fluctuations (write cycles) ??

[Astonct]

Solid State Drive Array for the financial industry, especially large volume trading firms. They actually use Intel processors as well. Funny how Intel is sort of etching into the storage arena piece by piece...

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[sadchild]

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