SSDs Beginning to Overtake HDDs
The market for Solid State Disks - that is flash-based drives with no moving parts - has been slow to come around. The drives that have been available over the past year have been limited in size (<64G), expensive (>$1000), and slower than conventional hard drives. Well it seems that one of these three drawbacks has been conquered. The MTRON 32GB SSD can actually outperform a Western Digital Raptor (the drive series that has held the IDE/SATA performance crown for as long as I can remember).
Flash drives have always held an advantage over conventional hard drives in that they can withstand higher shock, make no noise, produce no heat, require significantly less power, have faster access times, have higher MTBF . . . but that last hurdle of sustained read/write speeds had yet to be breached. As of now, even MTRON’s 32GB versions cost $1000, but I fully expect SSDs to surge ahead of HDDs in the coming months as other players step in with similar performance. After all, speed always leads to widespread adoption in the computing industry.
MTRON, a newly-founded South Korean company, is definitely doing something right. (visit their website) Unfortunately, I have no idea how to invest in this company because they are not listed on the Korea Exchange, though both Samsung and Promise are business partners.
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Well, actually, it only costs $500, if you convert your money to pennies .
Yeah, but it is illegal to ship more than $100 worth of pennies overseas, and you can only get this drive on the Asian market.