Percentage notebook equipped SSD ( solid state drive storage like memory card ) customers were brought back in the store on the grounds that failure , malfunction or poor performance accounted for 20-30% of sales . This fact may make any public computer manufacturers also have " appalling " .
Indeed irony
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MacBook Air , a notebook model used in the current SSDs . Source : AP
These notebooks can always use SSDs cost " excessively " and hype is " superior product " , but it seems that " was not expensive sandwiches " in this case .
According to the firm Avian Securities , about 10-20 % of the SSD notebook brands mainframe users were " rejected " because of constant crashes , loss of data or run flutter .
Meanwhile , the refund rate used notebook hard drive is usually only 1-2 % only.
People used to bring the product back because of poor performance , not reaching expectations and not commensurate with the cost quite a lot .
" According to customer complaints , notebook SSD packaging can not be compared to the laptop hard drive when running heavy applications like video streaming or video editing " .
The " slap " heaven
This is a " slap " in the face manufacturers , because in theory , SSDs have faster speeds of at least 20 % compared with hard drives .
According to Avian , almost all companies engaged in the notebook SSD market will stick bug . Dell has always been the most aggressive firm promoted for SSDs , and ironically , it looks like the company's products are also the most return .
Dell's representatives declined to disclose the breakdown ratio or return customers , but admits it is true that SSDs are " poor performance " when running the application data exchange like Microsoft Outlook .
However, Dell is trying to salvage the disadvantages of SSDs that are overcoming a " quick and positive " .
For example , the storage capacity has doubled ( from 32GB to 64GB ) since this technology shipped so far . Under the plan , Samsung will launch 256GB SSD in late 2008 this .
Besides, if the first generation SSD reaches read speeds only equivalent data hard drive 5400 rpm / min , the last month , Dell announced a new high-speed solid-state drive with greater efficiency to 35 % .
Most importantly , Dell is committed to high-speed SSDs cost at least not higher than the current SSD products .
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PC makers have had upset even the industry producing flash memory also equally puzzled because information published by Avian .
Sales of flash memory chips has slowed considerably recently , and SSD are many companies (especially Samsung ) is expected to open up a huge new revenue channels .
Compared with conventional flash memory , SSD storage is considerably more , with nearly equivalent capacity computer hard drive . Compared to hard drives , SSD benefits to Vietnam than in its ability to not lose data in case of a sudden power interruption .
In addition, SSD laptop users running very smoothly - did not generate loud noises like traditional laptop hard drive .
However, the biggest barrier to SSD to the mass market is its cost . With the $ 200 - 300USD / SSDs , each equipped notebook deck storage technology must cost no less than $ 900 , while the performance and configuration are not very competitive .
"The market for flash memory chips are falling into overproduction , oversupply . Consequently, the price continued to fall , even cheaper than the original cost of production ," analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis for know .
Bran ( Synthesis CNET , PC World )
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