Finally, Mark, if theres one myth or misperception about solid state technology, what is it?
I’m going to give you three. The first is that solid state is not new. The second is that people talk about it being too expensive and I still hear this even from people in the industry and it appalls me. I keep hearing people say once we get the price down to that of a Fibre Channel 15K disk then we have a business for solid state. I think that’s complete hogwash. That’s looking at it from the wrong perspective. Solid state for next few years is all about a relatively small amount of capacity that can save a tremendous amount of I/O. You can get 80% of your I/O taken care of with 20% of your capacity. Even in terms of today’s pricing, cost per I/O or the I/O per watt for solid state are already very compelling. The third thing is that people talk about the ruggedness. You hear a lot about write endurance and program disturbance and wear leveling and error correction codes, and so on and so forth. Yes I know there are issues in the short-term but they’ll be overcome. There are already
