I should have more carefully stated that 25nm NAND (or 20nm class in general) is not available in any SSD yet rather than state that it isn't available in general. However, I was trying to point out that your comment that "Even with the recent die shrink from Intel/Micron and Samsung they haven't passed along the savings to consumers yet" isn't really fair, since none of the 20nm class NAND is actually shipping in finished SSD products yet. It remains to be seen if the die shrink and resultant cost reduction will be passed along to consumers. I strongly suspect it will be--the market has really grown quite competitive.
Agreed that it's likely to be 2011 or 2012 before SSDs really enter the big time for most consumers. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Scoobydo > Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 10:01 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] Greg what do you think of this SSD? > > Oh I agree completely that we end user won't see anything for several > months yet. I just wanted to point out that 25nm NAND flash exists right now > and is being shipped in volume from IM's FAB in Idaho. 25nm is real now but > that's still not small enough. I tend to agree with Anand that > 2010 is not the year of the solid state drive. Big time market penetration will > be next year or the year after and I can't wait till the price drops through the > floor. Only then will the last piece of ancient PC tech begin to die off. Well > except for optical drives that is.. > >
