Gizmowiz
It won't be long before Hard drives will be measured in Petabytes not Terabytes.
paul314
Without a price tag attached, this is definitely for the earliest adopters. For consumers, you're probably talking about $100/TB as a decent point.
Ironically the wide availability of cheap big SSDs could put a dent in sales for new laptops and desktops, since one of these could give old CPU and RAM a new lease on life.
ArthurGD3
@VincentWolf, my first computer's HDD was 1.275GB, one of the first 1GB HDD's available in a consumer PC. I believe now the largest single drive available on the consumer market may be 8 or 10TB, it will be a while before we get PB drives.
Bob B
@ArthurGD3 - You must be really young... My first computer's HDD was 120MB... Yes, MB! And that was just a few years ago.
Errrr..... CRUD! More than just a few years ago. sigh...
I splurged on that computer and ordered it with 8MB of RAM. heheheh
P51d007
My first computer had 2 720kb floppy drives. My first REAL computer that I built myself, had a 1.44 meg, 1.2 meg floppy and a WHOPPING 40megabyte HDD. I remember when the size got into the hundreds of megabytes, I thought what would you need THAT kind of storage for.
see3d
All you youngsters and your giant MB drives. My first computer had an SSD made by intel. It was 256 bytes large, with sequential read/write access only. The processor was 8 bits (before intel started making micro-processors). Those were the days my friends!
Well maybe I am stretching the definition of an SSD slightly. If it lost power, it forgot everything. But hey, I had port-a-punch cards to reload the programs.
TomWatson
How Much? C'mon you know everybody paged-down to look for the price ... Nope .... stick the article, not interested without a price and no stalling to keep readers, show it at the start!!!
Robert Walther
Bought an iMac in mid 1984 - the 'Big Brother' ad hooked me. My 128k Ram - 400k Mac with an external 400K floppy and a dot matrix cost me $3300. To top this I bought four(4) One(1) MEG ram chips for my first MacII in 1989. $999 per MEG!!!
Daishi
Pricing hasn't been released yet but for context Samsung's 1 TB SSD's are between $220 an $400. Their 2 TB SSD's are between $510 and $840. They could likely be over $1,000 at first. The other capacities might see a price cut too. Personally I'm bummed that NVMe M.2 SSD's are still a premium over standard (slower) SATA connected ones.
James Brett
It's £800 inc VAT, have you all forgotten how to Google?