Another nail is being pound into the traditional platter-based, spinning hard drive’s dominance. OCZ, popular computer hardware manufacturer, is planning to open a new plant dedicated solely to pumping out high quality solid state hard drives. In doing this, OCZ will effectively triple their SSD output from the current ~50,000 units per month to more than 140,000.
That’s good for a two main reasons. (1) We the consumer will have more options when it comes to SSD and (2) it will help drive down the cost of SSDs. The latter point is the big win for me. I simply have too much media, which would make a transition to SSD an extremely costly one. Once SSD’s hit the ~$250 range for 500GB or more, then I’ll bite. Until then, it’s old school for me.
Source: Bit-Tech
