They were not meant to be cheaper than HDD's. They are not even targetting the same marketOriginally Posted by m^2
I don't like the word "always".
Statements that use it are always wrong.
And, as mentioned before, tape drives was meant to be always cheaper than HDDs. Technology advances + scale change made it wrong. This will be the same.
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Because they can't be yet.
Currently they are meant to be the only storage device in mobile and rugged computers. This is the same market as small HDDs.They are not even targetting the same market
Also, they are meant to be small and fast storage - that's exactly where Raptor is now.
Also, in enterprise market, they are used for storing bigger amounts of data (not as big as HDDs yet though ) even when their speed is not that important.
http://www.superssd.com/products/ramsan-440/
In this case, flash is used because it's cheap enough. And makes the whole ram disk start up quicker which is a rare case as such things aren't meant to be shut down too often.
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