Re: SLS was: RE: can POWER6 IBM i or System i run on non-IBM disk drives?

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 15:34, Pete Massiello
<pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

   ÂThe question I was wondering last week, was how soon do you think it
will be until all our disk space is Solid State? ÂAre we 3,5, or 10 years
away?

All? 5-10 years. Remember, many more expensive laptops already ship
with SSDs Standard, for example the Lenovo X300 models, or a variety
of MacBook models.

SSDs have also become affordable - 599$ gets you the fastest consumer
SSD on the market right now, with 160GB of capacity. That's the price
the PS3 had at launch.

You can get shitty Jmicron SSDs from 100-200$, which are still faster
at random reads than most hard drives (they suck at at writes,
though).

ÂI think it will be driven now by price, but when do they become
affordable?

They already are, and are a good investment for high speed workstations.

Server SSDs are already available, though at outragous prices and
lagging one or two generations behind. SAS 6GB is already out, which
will be able to satisfy the bandwidth needed by SSDs. I guess we'll
start to see PCI-E x16 2.0 RAID controllers at some point in the
future :)