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Re:SSDs cost half of what they did in 2011 by wtallis on Saturday June 30, 2012 @10:40PM (#4183617)
If we were willing to accept SSDs being as unreliable as human memory, we could increase capacities by an order of magnitude with current technology. In fact, if SSD controller design weren't so tricky, someone would have taken advantage of this already to build a pretty decent enterprise-scale caching system.
Re:SSDs cost half of what they did in 2011 by nickolai on Sunday July 01, 2012 @12:05AM (#4183801)
>being as unreliable as human memory,

That's actually considered to be a feature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia