A-Data: SSD Market Still Two Years Away from Significant Growth
A-Data: SSD Market Still Two Years Away from Significant Growth
Posted 04/22/2010 at 6:03am
| by Paul Lilly
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Here's some sobering news if you're hoping to pick up a low cost, high capacity solid state drive (SSD) any time in the near future. According to A-Data chairman Simon Chen, the SSD market won't experience robust growth for at least another two years.
NAND flash chips are at the root of problem. While the development of chip controllers have matured and TRIM support is now commonplace, NAND flash memory still costs way too much to push SSDs into the mainstream on any kind of level approaching hard drives.
Chen did note that NAND flash chip prices have come down a little bit since the fourth quarter of 2009, but not nearly enough to make an impact. Market research firm DRAMeXchange backs Chen's claims, noting that contract quotes for mainstream 16Gb (gigabit) multi-level cell (MLC) chips have stayed high at $4.06 so far this month.
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ocnier
April 22, 2010 at 12:31pm
The sad part about this, is that if we could get about a half terabyte solid state drive for under $500-$600 i think the market would explode. The operating system isn't going to bloat that much anytime soon. At present 128 gig just isn't really viable for the mainstream use. Bummer.................
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