Comments on ‘World's slimmest 256GB SSD unveiled’

Price 

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As always it comes down to price. Without the price I won't get too excited about it and especially so if it is ridiculously priced.

Yeah Okay!!! Not for that!!!! 

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http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/ProductDetail.jsp?LISTID=8000062E-1201557509

Anywhere between $6000-$7000 screw that....

remember when 

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I remember when 1GB SCSI-II drives (full height no less - none of this 12.5mm junk) were selling for around $1,000. And not all that long ago - 1997. So by that scale, a 256GB drive would have cost $250,000 or so. $5,950 / $250,000 = 2.4% in other words this drive is 42x cheaper per GB.

I'll take 50! yah right....

But seriously, it's fantastic to see that they even make drives like this. I mean 0.1 ms seek???? thats fast. and 50-65GB /sec transfer rate - that smokes practically any drive out there assuming it can keep it up over a good stretch of time. It's only a matter of time until we all have this tech in our notebooks.

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