SSD are expensive and when I first saw them in netbooks around two years ago I could not understand why someone would pay a lot of money for a mere 16GB SSD. Today, SSDs have grown bigger in capacity but they still don’t compare to standard hard disks in terms of capacity and price.

In a recent study by J.Gold Association they noted that companies actually save more in a three year period when investing on SSDs compared to standard disks. A computer with a standard disk would cost around $970 USD in warranty support and repair compared to a …read more

The rise of ultraportables has triggered a race to develop ever-bigger solid-state drives, and Samsung is in the lead. Not only is their upcoming 256GB SSD twice as big as their previous model, it’s also twice as fast at 200MBps read and 160MBps write.