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Founded over 20 years ago, AnalysysMason is the world's premier
adviser in telecoms, IT and media. From offices in Cambridge, London, Glasgow,
Madrid, Milan, Paris, San Francisco and Washington DC, Analysys staff provide
strategy and systems consultancy, conferences, information services and start-up
support to the companies that are creating the networked economy.
- editor's comments:- Analysys was the subject of a
news story we ran
in 2001 - related to a market report they had published about the SAN / WAN
markets.
I looked at their site again in January 2009 - and the content
seems extremely UK-centric. I recommend an interesting article -
IPTV
struggling in the UK - but I couldn't find anything closely related to
storage.
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Pass HDDs in Storage Density |
2009 may
well be remembered as the year that flash
SSDs surpassed HDDs
in storage capacity in the same form factor.
I'm not talking about itsy
bitsy
1 inch and smaller drives
here. I'm talking about the hard core
2.5" form factor.
That's
the size which once seemed to offer the
best hopes
for hard disk makers staying in business - in applications like disk to
disk backup, entertainment
bulk storage etc.
In January 2009 - pureSilicon started
sampling a
2.5" MLC SSD -
with 1TB capacity in a 9.5mm high form factor.
Price wasn't mentioned.
I expect it will cost a lot. But nowhere near as much as the 1st terabyte SSDs
cost - when they appeared in
2002 - at
a cool $2 million.
So you may well ask - when will SSDs cost less
than HDDs for the same capacity?
In some high-performance grades (15K
RPM server drives) - I expect to see that happen this year - in smaller
capacities like 100GB. Looking Ahead to the
2009 SSD Market | |
