On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Greg Lindahl wrote:
I was recently surprised to learn that SSD prices are down in the
$2-$3 per gbyte range. I did a survey of one brand (OCZ) at NexTag
and it was:
256 gigs = $700
128 gigs = 300
64 gigs = 180
32 gigs = 70
Also, Micron is saying that they're going to get into the business of
PCIe-attached flash, which will give us a second source for what
Fusion-io is shipping today.
If you're on the "I like a real system disk" side of the
diskless/diskfull fence, these SSDs ought to be a lot more reliable
than tradtional disks. And I'd like to get rid of the mirrored
disks in our developer desktops...
Very useful information, as I'm on the "real system disk" side. Lagging
real hard disk by what, a decade? But catching up, and 32 GB is really
plenty anyway, whether for a node or for a workstation, right up to
where you start putting your entire music/movie collection on it.
I'll have to get a 32 GB chip and see if I can boot my laptop from it.
I definitely can boot from USB flash (and carry linux in my pocket
routinely these days:-) and it is down to something like 16 GB for $30.
16 GB is actually the size of / on my current laptop, and a fairly fat
Fedora 9 (lots of games and other stuff to play with and try out) still
leaves 5 GB.
Thanks!
rgb
-- greg
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