Everybody noticed the drop in SSD price?

About a month ago i sniped a good deal I think 84 dollars for a 256GB Sandisk Ultra plus SSD drive. Been noticing all HUGE drop in prices except for the top tier like the 'pros' and 'extreme' editions which only have like 20-40MB/s faster transfers.

Anyways will the tek talk about Sandisk Ultradimm and how it's shaking up the marketplace? I know they been pitched on newegg or something and now it's almost trending everywhere. I was surprized this was being built and researched since January this year. If it's anything like DDR3 ramdisk software with built-in SSD this would be amazing. Installing current games would take a few seconds instead of 5-10 mintues.

 

Here's a 5 mintue sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFqHdv697Q4

Which reminds me of current ramdisk software & NVRAM of years past. But IMO really drove up the market for 32/64 GB ram. Since people where doing SMART things with them etc.

I'm hoping this technology will drive up and modify motherboard manufacturers to have more than 4 dimm slot possibly 8-12 for enthuaist/consumers etc... Considering they are paying 2-10K already for just PCIE SSDs.

 

One thing that pissed me off was the shared bandwidth of the current archieture as in INTEL where unless you're buying the top tier, almost all PCI-E was either reduced or shared etc... What the point of SSD if it's sharing bandwidth with SLI'ed graphics card or PCI-E soundcard etc... which really pissed me off considering we grew up with 16x quad channel PCI-E lanes and having them reduced. Also makes me pissed off too that intel is delaying quad channel memory support for non xeon cpus. My HP XW8600 since 2008 had quad channel and we have to wait for ddr4 & intel's skylake architecture. 

I'm glad there's movers and shakers on PC industry considering how lackluster AMD & Intel has been for the last 2 years.

 

 

Hot tech today is tomorrows doorstop.

Wait , quad chanell was on X79 ? And that's been around since 2011 ?

I don't really agree with everything you said , but yeah , as said abouve , new stuff today will be mainstream tommorow 

2008 > 2011