Solid-state storage has not seduced guests to open the purse

Although hundreds of times faster and more durable than hard drives, SSD solid-state storage devices are still expensive, only appearing in high-end computers for " heavy " gamers or organizations. need to store important information.

Alienware, the US computer company specializing in " top-notch " PC design, has just added a 64 GB SSD drive to Area-51 and Arurora PC lines. They said that the boot and download time of this drive is faster and more reliable than conventional HD hard drives. In addition, the device consumes less power.

SanDisk 64 GB SSD.Photo: Ixbt .

But prices make many gamers just look and dream. While the usual Aurora (320 GB hard drive, 64-bit Athlon 64 X2 processor, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX graphics card, 2 GB RAM, Logitech gaming keyboard, running Windows Vista Ultimate) costs $ 4,099. , the product has the same configuration but uses 64 GB SSD drive for up to 5,799 USD.

Currently, the price per GB of SSD technology is 10.95 USD (the standard type of SATA for SanDisk laptops). It is quite expensive but if you look at the price of 1 year ago (31.25 USD / GB), one can expect that this decline will help SSD quickly to popular consumers.

Organizations that need to store important information are redirecting to use an SSD because of its durability, making the data not at risk of being destroyed when impacted. The NASA aerospace agency has been active in using SSDs on the shuttle fleet, saying that while the best HD drives can withstand only 2-digit loads (G load), the Ultra320 Wide- SCSI SSD can bear 1,500 G.

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