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1. How long do you expect the economies of scale to reach the point where SSD are competitive with standard spindle based HDD
2. From what I have read certain SS technologies have a maximum read/write lifetime; is this a problem with SSD as well?
3. Is this product line a long term Intel stratagem or is it an attempt to spur the market towards adopting solid state drive technologies?
 
1) I believe the SATA II standard is already limiting reads on the X25-E's do you plan to make your own standard using PCI-E or wait for the SATA-III?

2) Will there be an X18-E with similar performance to the X25-E?

3) Do you see the drives onboard controller needing more power as the speeds increase? Is this consuming more power than the storage chips currently?

4) What size manufacturing process is being used for the current X25s SLC / MLC and when do you see that being reduced?
 
First of all thank you for taking the time to answer some of our questions.

As many other I am salivating sevearly at the thought of going SSD. However 2 things are holding me back (same as most) Price and Size.

Q1: When do you expect we will see 500GB; 1TB drives in SS technology? (or to rephrase how will this tech scale in size over time?)

Q2: What are the driving factors behind the pricing today? i.e is it the cost of the components (which we can expect to fall slowly due to economy of scale and our dear friend Mr. Moore) or is it development / R&D recoup driven or is there a factor that I have overlooked driving the prices of SSDs?

Also just as a statement to explain whats the make or break point to me as a gamer and good income European. I use my Lappy for averything (incl. games) and I need at least 250 GB of storage but I simply cannot defend the 600€+ (820USD+) they cost as an investment. I might be willing to part with around 200€ (275 USD) for a decent SSD. I have phrased the questions above as I haveto understand the future pricing and size development any other input on this from an engineers point of view would be appreciated.
 
Do you anticipate flash becoming fast enough and cheap enough to replace RAM in low end systems within the next decade?
 
I'm looking to design an HD Video editing Workstation. What type of performance improvements should we expect to see with 2 drive SSD RAID 0 Arrays ad 4 Drive SSD RAID 0 Arrays vs. a single SSD?

When an SSD fails, does it typically fail to write, but still reatain readability, or does it typically fail to read and write?
 
How much heat can these drive take before failing?

How much will power will be needed in the coming years (will power consumption drop)?

When will large drives come to the market (over 500GB)? What price will these be?
 
1) Are there plans to build a 3.5" SSD which can incorporate much more flash memory due to the size and in effect result in much larger SSD drive capacities?

2) Since SSD does not suffer from some performance limiting factors inherit in mechanical hard drives, is SSD performance purposefully being retarded to perform along the lines of current hard drives to create an artificial path of upgrade for future SSD releases? It is quite obvious that SSD could be much faster than it currently is or debuted, and since storage speeds are the single most limiting factor in PC speeds from many years ago until the present, not unleashing true SSD potential is stiffling the progress of PC and other computing devices.

3) When can we expect SSD manufacturers to stripe (RAID 0) each individual chip inside a SSD to increase peformance expontentially? Due to all the storage devices inside a SSD (each flash chip) being inside one device, non-redundancy of a RAID 0 is not an issue inside a SSD and therefor you would ONLY gain from using internal RAID 0 inside a SSD drive.
 
At the last Channel Conference, I seem to remember one of the Intel guys stated that there are extra bits on the drive, and it will block off bad bits and use the extra bits to keep the drive operational. Am I remembering right?

How many extra bits are there? 5%? 10%?
 
JerRatt said:
1) Are there plans to build a 3.5" SSD which can incorporate much more flash memory due to the size and in effect result in much larger SSD drive capacities?

2) Since SSD does not suffer from some performance limiting factors inherit in mechanical hard drives, is SSD performance purposefully being retarded to perform along the lines of current hard drives to create an artificial path of upgrade for future SSD releases? It is quite obvious that SSD could be much faster than it currently is or debuted, and since storage speeds are the single most limiting factor in PC speeds from many years ago until the present, not unleashing true SSD potential is stiffling the progress of PC and other computing devices.

3) When can we expect SSD manufacturers to stripe (RAID 0) each individual chip inside a SSD to increase peformance expontentially? Due to all the storage devices inside a SSD (each flash chip) being inside one device, non-redundancy of a RAID 0 is not an issue inside a SSD and therefor you would ONLY gain from using internal RAID 0 inside a SSD drive.
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i like question 2! but obviously we may not find out the truth
 
USB flash memory has many grades where there's cheap slow ones and expensive faster ones, and I'm assuming they mostly all use MLC. What kind of flash is currently being used in the Intel MLC drive? If they are the high grade fast ones, how much cheaper would it be if slower ones were used and at what performance penalty?
 
Are there plans to release RAID controllers and/or cards specifically designed for SSDs? If so, what differences will it have compared to standard RAID controllers designed for disks?
 
Why are the disk capacities relatively small when comparing, for example, a 64gb USB drive & why is the cost out of proportion to USB flash?
 
Thanks for all the questions!!! We will have an article back up soon along with a following discussion.
 
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