416GB SSD is worth more than you are

[fulltimer56]

416GB SSD is worth more than you are

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Until now, the largest flash-based SSD hard drive has been 160GB (http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/02/23/adtron_160gb_so.html), and it was insanely expensive. Right now, the largest you're going to find in a consumer product such as a laptop is 64GB, which generally adds around $900 to the price of the computer. With that in mind, a 416GB SSD from Bitmicro Networks will probably cost as much as a new luxury car when it comes out next March.

Aimed at the military rather than at consumers looking to beef up their laptops, the 2.5-inch drive is small enough to fit in laptop computers, providing faster access time, faster booting, less energy consumption, and less weight. Eventually, all computers will have drives like this inside, but hopefully they'll cost somewhere in the low hundreds of dollars rather than the tens of thousands of dollars. — Adam Frucci

Bitmicro Networks (http://www.bitmicro.com/), via Crave (http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9778188-1.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Crave)

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[oxbladder]

What is the point of the expensive external drives? I can get more back up power than that for way less .... so what if it is the size of a slightly oversized paperback?

[fulltimer56]

I personaly use 4 GB memory cards as my backup! Way smaller than a paperback book!! ;)

Linda

[oxbladder]

I have three external hard drives. One is rarely used because I think failure is imminent. Two was purchased to replace that one and it also is several hundred GB larger (500GB) and the third is my drive from my old iMac that croaked during my summer vacation. I think all together i think it came to about 6-700 dollars.

[StlComics]

I also have an big external HD, and love it. I want another one so I can stop archiving so much stuff to dvd. #bash3#

[Evil Parsnip]

I've got about 2 TB of drives and mostly they were cheap. You can get a 500gb drive for about $100 these days and a full TB for less than $300. I like the maxtor 1TB drive though because it's really 2 500gb drives in the same package and can be set so that they both record the same data at the same time so even if one of them dies the other still has all your info.