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Is Intel about to Kill the Market for its Own SSDs?

Posted 09/04/09 at 03:30:42 PM  by Paul Lilly

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Sometimes ignorance is bliss, so if you just blew this month's rent by investing in a high performance, low capacity SSD instead, you may want to stop reading.

For those of you still with us, your decision to put off buying an SSD could pay off big time. In a massive report called "Intel's Braidwood: Death to SSDs?," research firm Objective Analysis points out that Intel's upcoming Braidwood NAND flash memory, which will reside directly on the motherboard, costs less to install and offers the same benefits of a discrete SSD.

"The move to NAND in PCs will boost the NAND market, soften the SSD and DRAM markets, and pose problems for thsoe NAND makers who are not poised to produce ONFi (open NAND flash interface) NAND flash," said Jim Handy, an Objective Analysis analyst who authored the report.

But while Objective Analysis has all but written the SSD market's obituary, Intel maintains it sees a "long life ahead for SSDs," saying the focus with Braidwood is not sheer performance, but added reliability.

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TAGS: intel, storage, hardware, ssd, solid state drive, build a pc, braidwood
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avatarI'm not buying any SSDs

Submitted by gendoikari1 on Sat, 09/05/2009 - 7:59pm

I'm not buying any SSDs until I see a 512GB+ SSD that costs LESS than a new house. Also, any VelociRaptor drives larger than 300GB would surely make it a buy.

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avatarDo you live in Detroit?

Submitted by squarebab on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 10:57am

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/08/real_estate/thousand_dollar_homes/index.htm

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avatarEXAGGERATION, MOTHERFSCKER!

Submitted by gendoikari1 on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 12:37pm

EXAGGERATION, MOTHERFSCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT?

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avatarAt first....

Submitted by squarebab on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 9:30pm

At first I couldn't hear you above your all-caps response, but when noise of your petulant screaming subsided I realized I was dealing with someone who takes himself way too seriously.  Someday you'll learn how to appreciate a good-natured ribbing and play along. Until then I suggest you put down the gun and go home, before you hurt someone. 

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avatarI'm not buying any SSDs either

Submitted by periodhyphenund... on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 8:16am

I'm just buying specific SSDs, like Samsung, OCZ and Intel for now!

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avatarThis must be the affordable RAM drive we've all been waiting for

Submitted by squarebab on Sat, 09/05/2009 - 10:24am

I have been waiting for months for someone to review  FUSiON-iOs   ioXtreme 80GB PCI-e RAM drive.  I guess Fusion-io has delayed releasing the drive because they have been waiting for chipset support?  I have read that these drives weren't bootable, but with Intel supporting it, that may no longer be the case.

 

 http://www.fusionio.com/ioxtreme/index.php

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avatarSensationalism

Submitted by mesiah on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 8:09pm

This sounds like more sensationalist journalism to me. SSDs are here to stay. Personally I think they will eventually be the end of hard disk drives. From everything I have gathered in recent months about this technology, it is being implemented on i5 systems (specifically clarkdale chips) I'm sure if all goes well it will make its way to the enthusiast market, but you can't honestly think this technology is going to supplant system drives all together. Its more like a middle ground between RAM and the hard drive. I highly doubt it will have the storage capacity of a typical system drive, and from the sounds of it, it wont even be accessible as a regular drive, it would work behind the scenes to speed up performance. Its not going to store entire game levels, or huge chunks of video for editing. You'll see an improvement in system boot times or commonly used program load times, but when it comes to level load times, video/audio editing etc. its not going to have an impact. A high end machine with SSD drives installed would likely see little to no benefit from the technology, which is probably why they aren't bothering to implement it in high end systems right away. So, if you were considering buying an SSD, don't let this tripe scare you away, Its a good idea, but it will not stop the SSDs rise to power over lowly spinning media :)

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