On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 10:56 +0200, Jakob Bohm wrote: > A few observations on this: > > On 6/23/2012 12:47 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > ... > > > > Now, for this discussion, I've been looking at the solid state disk > > industry, and its slow, but steady, progress. With the prevalence of > > SSDs, there's going to come a point where the platter speed and > > average seek times become less, and less important. > > I think it will still be a few years before they reach the $/GB mark of > magnetic storage, but it might be just 2 to 5 years into the future.
Samsung says this might never happen at least for RAM, basically because of the huge and ever increasing investments required for each new technology cycle with smaller structures and lower power usage. http://www.worldhostingdays.com/downloads/2012/hStag1b5.pdf Not sure how this translate to the modules used for SSDs. Also, Samsung might obviously have a bit of a conflict for interest here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list Courier-imap@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
