Illustration by Rafael Ricoy
Revisiting Gray and Putzolu's famous rule in the age of Flash.
Appreciate the conservative estimate for SSDs, but $999 for a 32GB SSD ($31/GB) is verging on an order of magnitude out of date:
Here's a low-end intel: $314 for an 80GB SSD ($4/GB).
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167005
Would be great if you could update your figures/calculations with this in mind. Exciting analysis!
cheers,
Nat Wharton
UC Berkeley Graduate Student