Will SSD prices fall to a level that can beat HDD or even Blu-ray Disc on a per GB level in the next 3 years?

T&A: Nikkei Electronics Asia has just released a feature story on the challenges Solid State Disks (SSDs) are posing to traditional Hard Disk Drives (HDDs).

What’s interesting with the feature is how it begins by talking about Baidu.com, the world’s third largest search engine in terms of searches (according to comScore Inc.), and how the China-based firm plans to utilize SSD (instead of HDDs) for almost every tenths of their search servers and 100% for Web search servers. (Editor opinions: 1) (more…)