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Bitmicro to show off an 832GB SSD
BITMICRO SAYS it will demonstrate an 832GB Solid State Disk (SSD) at CES this week.
The high density 2.5-inch SATA storage device is part of Bitmicro's E-Disk Altima line of multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory products. It will handle up to 20,000 I/Os per second and sustained data rates of 100MB per second, Bitmicro claims.
The company announced a 416GB SSD last September and projected those would be available in March, but it has pushed out its roadmap to the last half of 2008 with retail products not expected until the third quarter. The big 832GB capacity units should follow their smaller siblings into the market.
Bitmicro has not announced the retail prices of these high capacity SSD devices, but industry estimates are that they will be in the five-digit range. ยต
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According to dramexchange.com, MLC is only around $3/GB right now. A 5-digit price tag would be way out of line...
With or without a side of white diamonds? What about doused in rare snow-leopard blood?
A cheap-and-slow SSD, the 32GB Transcend MLC model, costs around $280 right now (street price).

832GB is 26 times that amount of flash, and 26 x $280 is $7280.

But then, Bitmicro would charge a premium for the biggest SSD on the planet, and a price premium for a low volume item, which puts the price squarely into the [low] 5 figures.
I wonder were they got 832GB from...
With those sort of prices you may as well get a RAID 6 SAS array. It will be cheaper, more fault tolerant, faster and more reliable.

On the counter side, it will take up ALOT more space than 2.5 inch, very noisy & takes up plenty more eletricity.
The flash chips for that cheap-and-slow 32GB Transcend are only worth about $100. I really don't think the case and controller are worth $40 by themselves, with a 100% markup to get to retail. 832GB of flash is only worth ~$2500 today, and that figure will keep dropping. Nobody in their right mind should pay $1100 for the controller and case plus another 100% markup on top of that.