SSD Penetration in Ultrabooks to Hit 85% This Year

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According to DRAMeXchange, the Ultrabook market will adopt even more SSD implementation during the remainder of 2012. The popularity of the solid state drives increases as the prices begin to drop and stabilize.

DRAMeXchange forecast that more than 85% of new Ultrabook models would introduce the SSD hybrid solutions by simultaneously using 24G/32G SSD and conventional mechanical hard drives.
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from wiki: An Ultrabook is a higher-end type of subnotebook defined by Intel

If a subnotebook is not using an SSD, it is not higher-end. Why bother with the category if you are going to allow 15% of the market to fake it.
 
whole point of ultrabook is to have longer battery life, and in reality SSD will give better battery life than mechanical disk. beside with mechanical disk, you can't get fast boot time.
 
Cbshahji said:
whole point of ultrabook is to have longer battery life, and in reality SSD will give better battery life than mechanical disk. beside with mechanical disk, you can't get fast boot time.
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They really won't offer a substantial bump in battery life. Only certain SSDs offer lower idle wattage and load wattage, some of them even have higher power consumption than your standard 5.4k RPM notebook drives. Better access times, yea, but better battery life? Eh, not really.
 
Wumpus said:
from wiki: An Ultrabook is a higher-end type of subnotebook defined by Intel

If a subnotebook is not using an SSD, it is not higher-end. Why bother with the category if you are going to allow 15% of the market to fake it.
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It s subnotebook is not using a 1Tb drive, it is not higher-end.

The designation is arbitrary / eye-of-the-beholder.
 
jpm100 said:
It s subnotebook is not using a 1Tb drive, it is not higher-end.

The designation is arbitrary / eye-of-the-beholder.
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I would argue it isn't a subnotebook then, but there's always somebody out there that just has to to datamining on a 10" screen.
 
pelo said:
They really won't offer a substantial bump in battery life. Only certain SSDs offer lower idle wattage and load wattage, some of them even have higher power consumption than your standard 5.4k RPM notebook drives. Better access times, yea, but better battery life? Eh, not really.
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This is why some ultrabooks have mechanical drives.

Plus it can save in costs and/or be a large drive (like a 750GB-1TB drive).
 
Ultrabooks require a certain level of performance to be designated as such. It's up to the vendor to decide how they want to get there. Some are flat out using ssd's, others use ssd's as cache drives and finally some use hybrid drives.
 
I like the manufacturers that put in a standard mechanical drive and leave an open mSATA slot so you can put in your own SSD at 1/3 the price they want to sell you an SSD upgrade. Now if only SSD makers would drop the prices on the 1.8" drives closer to the 2.5" prices.
 
Wumpus said:
from wiki: An Ultrabook is a higher-end type of subnotebook defined by Intel

If a subnotebook is not using an SSD, it is not higher-end. Why bother with the category if you are going to allow 15% of the market to fake it.
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Intel defined ultrabook and any manufacturer claiming to make one probably meets the specs. Which mostly just have to do with how thin it is and how long the thing lasts. Also ultra book itself is an oxymoron, these things are dog slow no matter who makes them. So in reality an ultrabook is really just a higher end type of netbook since it is slower and lower end than even very cheap laptops.
 
Techx said:
SSD penetration just sounds painful, no thx
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It sounds like you might be inserting it the wrong way. Did you read the directions and make sure you have the right slot for it to fit into properly? Also, if it doesn't just slide right in, you shouldn't try forcing it.
 
Too bad SSD prices are going to rise since major ssd comanies are cutting back SSD drives in hopes of jacking price (anyone say price fixxing).
 
Lets looks at the Ultrabook standard and then think for a second. If you commit all RAM to disk for hibernate worst case would be 4 gigs. reading that out in 7 seconds would be 571 meg a second...

So to technically meet the standard you require an SSD and a good one at that.

"Resume from hibernation (maximum) 7 seconds from S4"

"Storage no requirements 80 MB/s transfer rate (minimum)"
 
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