Thread: G. Skill SSD analyze

You have small mechanical leads which read and write 0s and 1s unto pieces of iron infused unto a whirling platter. When the speed and size of the platters has varied this is about all which has. We don’t have 3 million rpm hard drives with 100GB/s break rates and we never will. This is since the technology is by type very fixed and history will likely judge it as a dead end which shouldn’t have gone as far as it did.

If spinning platter founded hard drives are the former then what is the future? And this cuts off to the heart of the thing. Hard drive producers have experienced for quite some time that whirling platters could simply go so far and that brick wall / technology barrier is fast approaching.

They have been capable to hold off the fateful with tricks like vertical recording but the big boys like Seagate and Western Digital know they are nothing more than stop gaps. While these block gaps purchased them time, heavy amounts of R&D have been thrown at the problem and a clear winner has started to emerge.

This winner which we are discussing is none other than Solid State Disk Drive technology. In a seed plate SSDs are zero but particular RAM chips which don’t forget their state when the power is removed. By acquiring away from spinning platters and going into the memory arena, the hard drives of the next are going to acquire fast, small and cheap in a fairly big hurry.

A some years ago a 64GB SSD would cost you a cool 10k and nowadays they go for about 800 to 900 dollars. More significantly than cost or speed is the reality simply about any company can now develop a kick ass hard drive without passing the big tears in R&D.