Something that doesn't make much sense to me: SSHD prices

This is 4gb crammed into something the size of my pinky nail for a little over 30 bucks

This is an apple ipod, it has 160gb of solid state flash memory. it costs 350$ <----edit: wrong this is a hard drive (whoda thunk? eeeency weencie hd, cool )

This Now this, is you're usable notebook solid state hard drive, it is the largest available at newegg, it carries 128gb, and it costs only..... 3100 dollars!!! what a deal!

This has got to be the worst we consumers have ever been screwed over.

 

As I said in another post awhile back, I saw a news report that there will be an investigation into the memory makers "alleged" price fixing of flash memory. I don't think it's alleged. Those prices are evident of that.

 

Well, actually the 160GB iPods are hard drive based
Yee, those SSDs are expensive but, theres no comparing the price of a 4GB SD card to a 128GB HDD.

 

Umm I think you are a bit confused about the 3 products.Firstly the Apple Ipod does not have a solid state harddrive.It has a regular 1.8 inch 4200 RPM harddrive.Secondly there is a HUGE difference between a high capacity micro sd card and a 128 GB solid state harddrive.

I am sorry but can't help saying that those comparisons are funny.Check this link out to find out more about solid state harddrives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_state_disk

 

He's very misinformed.

 

Yes Thomas he is!

 

i guess thats why i was confused thanks mates! (read the wikipedia)

fyi i still feel we are being screwed, just not quite as badly lol.

you guys ever see a micro sd card? 4gigs in sooo tiny a place.

I realize that that is the slower/cheaper kind of ssd memory but still... if they took that into a hard drive im guessing a grand for 400gigs. and still a huge improvement over conventional hard drives.

 

See this thread for some results for a low end SSD.

John

 

There is actually a very logical reason for this...which your not going to like.

SSDs have been used in industry for quite awhile now. They are commonplace. You will see them in fighter jets, aviation equipment, rockets, medical equipment and the list goes on and on and on.

Companies such as SiliconSystems and STEC-Inc have been making these for the enterprise level and are doing very well.

Lots a money in enterprise remember....

So along comes a little company who decides these would be good for consumer products as well. After all SSDs are absolutely faboulous in large programs that do photo and graphics editing and so on...

So here we are at a very fragile time in SSD development. Companies are actually going to lose money as the price comes down in this case because sales have traditionally been to larger corporations who pay well. Can you imagine what USAF pays to put one of these babies in a fighterjet? And why would you want it in the fighterjet anyway?? That would be great for the G-Force pressure associated with these flights.

So as we drop the price to make this available for the consumer...so we must for enterprise.