SSD is expected to take over among harddrives sooner or later, sporting higher transfer rates, eventually higher capacities and longer lifespans. Objective Analysis speculates, in a report on Intel Braidwood, that demand for SSD will go down as other technologies will enable faster boot times. Braidwood is a NAND flash-based technology, which works through a module installed on the motherboard. This module can be used to speed up programs starts and the boot of the computer. Basically a new and better version of the Robson technology that also improved load times.
Jim Handy at Objective Analysis says:
“The move to NAND in PCs will boost the NAND market, soften the SSD and DRAM markets, and pose problems for those NAND makers who are not poised to produce ONFi (open NAND flash interface) NAND flash,”
The HDD technology of today has been refined over many years and today sport superior storage capacity, economy and MTBF, but the advantages with SSD, mainly read/write speeds, low power consumption, and faster access times makes us doubtful of these predictions.
The enormous future potential of Solid State Drives emits a gloomy mist across the harddrive moorlands as it looks to develop into something superior, no matter Intel Braidwood, to the mechanical drives.
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