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[sylvester80]

What was mind boggling from the article was the following:

"endurance of Intel SSDs should be roughly 50 times better than the competition"

"although the Intel SSD uses around twice the power for read and write operations, it does them so much faster than competitors' drives that the actual total energy consumed for a given operation is reduced by about half."

"the read and write performance of the SSDs will be several hundred times faster than the competition."

50x better and several hundred times faster are mind boggling numbers. If those numbers are true, the productivity throughput you will get by just replacing a HDD with a SSD will more than justify any cost. Current limiting factor in PCs is the hard drive. "Several hundred times faster" is exactly what everyone has been waiting for.

The talk from the IDF was that apps were loading instantly and productivity was a leap forward. When you add the amount of time you wait for your computer to do its operations due to its hard drive, and how much that time costs, you can easily see (especially now that NAND prices are down 70% yoy) that SSD costs becomes insignificant. All I can say is.... GIVE ME ONE NOW!!!!