True cost economics is an economic model that includes the cost of negative externalities associated with goods and services. Definition: True cost economics is an economic model that includes the cost of negative externalities associated with goods and services.
By contrast, a 750GB SATA drive can be had for about $130, which means that you can have about 2TB of usable conventional hard disk spinning storage, or about 60 times as much space as the SSD, protected against a single disk failure in a RAID-5, for the same price as the 32GB SSD.
The SATA oSSD standard-conforming SanDisk iSSD series utilizes a new electrical pin-out that allows SATA delivery using a single ball grid array (BGA) package. We are excited to have industry-wide support for the oSSD specification and look forward to seeing many oSSD-based products available in the near future.