Solid State Disks (SSDs) have become the popular talk of town lately, considering that they have a significant edge on power consumption and no moving parts compared against traditional hard drives. Still not a mainstream item due to their still expensive prices, yet some advances are making their way through to hopefully lower price soon enough.
One of these is PQI’s announcement that they are beginning production of 256 GB high speed SSDs. Allowing transfer rates of up to 60 MB/s, these drives are expected to be a competitive alternative to regular hard drives in the future; although you can bet the price for these disks will still be quite high for now.
With prices dropping quickly (Sandisk’s 32GB SSD is sold to manufacturers for $350) and higher capacities showing up on the market from others companies such as SimpleTech (256 and 512GB), A-Data (128GB), and Adtron (160GB) among a few , it might be just a year or two before SSDs become a regular on the hardware market.
Via [OhGizmo]
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