Windows 10: SanDisk unveils the worlds first 4TB SSD

You have to figure before too long the spinners will drop down to a subordinate tier like cassette tapes and LPs. Also the SSDs themselves may find production numbers maxing out as PCs just make slots for the memory. Why have all that metal casing?

 

They are a lot more affordable than they used to be.

 

There are PCIe versions, very pricey though.

Metal cases have advantages. They can be used as heat sinks and provide shielding against electronic interference. I'm not sure its needed for an SSD though. I think some of them have a metal mounting bracket and a plastic case. If it wasn't such a pain to remove the cover on my laptop I'd have a look at mine.

 

Of course right now compatibility says they have HD form factor. I guess "slot" was not the word to use. I mean in the future they will likely snap in like other memory. They just won't be as expensive as fast RAM. You might have 128 GB of RAM on an HP desktop PC and room for 16 TB of these things.

Edit: with connector in the back for super fast access to HD compatible devices or whatnot.

Edit2: Like the PC maker will be saying "Yeah you can still use that old slow HW if you insist. But don't put it inside our machines!"

 

Who knows what the future holds?

 

Not me. If I did I'd be buying on margin down on Wall St. *Smile

 

Very true. You can buy 240 GB models now for less than what I paid for my first 128 GB model. I guess what I was saying, and this is my point of view, is that for data storage a spinner works just fine and I'm in no rush to spend the extra money on a 1 TB or more SSD for that purpose.

 

Totally agree. When I finally get an SSD all I really need is about 128GB for the OS and Programs/apps. And I can get a nice one for about 65$ via Tigerdirect.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...487&CatId=5298

Using an SSD for storage is just a waste of money and could be used on better things. imo.
I would rather have a solid spinner for data any day. But that's just me and your mileage may vary on this one.

 

I agree. Large capacity SSD's are very expensive when compared to a spinner of the same capacity, so having a spinner for a large amount of Data still makes sense. The lower capacity drives though are getting very affordable and work great for running Windows from. That's the direction I'm heading.

 

Heck, I just paid less for a 240G ssd than I paid for my first 64G ssd!

 

SSDs will eventually replace the old spinning platter drives and prices will plummet. Their durability is as good as a HDD, or very near to them, I have 4 so far.

No RAID or any arrangement of HDD, even with a SCSI 15,000 RPM, can come close to SSD performance. Nearly instantly opening apps, fast GFX rendering, Fast video transcoding, etc. Oh, did I mention less then 30 second reboots? Some with Win 8 get 12 seconds.

 

I know the feeling mate.

 

I have to wonder if soon PCs may not "boot" at all. Maybe there will be a snapshot of the state of the machine at one particular microsecond. The ram will all be static(except perhaps for some performance cache) so no data loss on power down. When you power on the memory state will strobe from frozen to "live" and the CPU will start CPUing again.

I'm not enough of an engineer to know how exactly they would do it. I just feel like things are moving there.

 

There's good plan Miles.

 

They are also SAS drives, not SATAIII which will limit quick adoption.
Serial Attached SCSI - Wikipedia