Do you think harddrives will be replaced with solid state storage in the relative future?

[Joker81]

I think most of the Solidstate drives are not Flash. Usually they house huge batteries that in the event that the computer loses all power they will still have the data on them. At least thats how they used to be. If they were flash there is no way that it could have 30MB/s i mean you take a picture with a digital camera and it takes 10 seconds to save it.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Marshallj
The solid state drives that you guys are talking about are not as fast as hard drives. Not even close. You're confusing RAM with Flash memory. You can't use RAM for a hard drive because when you turn it off, you'll lose all your data. You'll need to use flash memory, which retains the info even when the power is off, but it's slow.

All RAM drives have batteries, IIRC. They're not THAT stupid...

Flash-based drives do have a little advantage in access time... ~50 microseconds for Bitmicro's.

 

[dighn]

i think it's inevitable, though it probably won't be the technologies we seen today (eg flash

 

[Jmmsbnd007]

Originally posted by: Marshallj

Originally posted by: deftron
I'm sure it will happen eventually, but it may be sooner than expected.

Right now, the capacity for both is increasing rapidly, but with the 100's of gigabytes
of storage available on hard drives.. most people probably dont use that (except MP3 or porn junkies)

If you could get a computer with say 30 to 40 GB of solid state storage and it was way faster
than hard drives would you do it?

You could always get a removable harddrive to plug in for stuff that takes up a lot of space, but
not always being in your computer will make it not only quieter, but the OS drive much faster.

I think we will start to see this within a couple years..

I doubt it, at least for now.

Hard drives hold much more data, are cheaper, and are faster. Although using a big flash drive would be neat, it doesn't have anywhere near the practicality of a hard drive.

The kind of memory that you're thinking of (the kind that retains the data even after turning the power off) is called flash memory, and its throughput is pretty low. Not anything close to a hard drive.

Actually, he's speaking of SRAM.

 

[LordMaul]

No, they will be replaced with holographic storage.

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007

Originally posted by: Marshallj

Originally posted by: deftron
I'm sure it will happen eventually, but it may be sooner than expected.

Right now, the capacity for both is increasing rapidly, but with the 100's of gigabytes
of storage available on hard drives.. most people probably dont use that (except MP3 or porn junkies)

If you could get a computer with say 30 to 40 GB of solid state storage and it was way faster
than hard drives would you do it?

You could always get a removable harddrive to plug in for stuff that takes up a lot of space, but
not always being in your computer will make it not only quieter, but the OS drive much faster.

I think we will start to see this within a couple years..

I doubt it, at least for now.

Hard drives hold much more data, are cheaper, and are faster. Although using a big flash drive would be neat, it doesn't have anywhere near the practicality of a hard drive.

The kind of memory that you're thinking of (the kind that retains the data even after turning the power off) is called flash memory, and its throughput is pretty low. Not anything close to a hard drive.

Actually, he's speaking of SRAM.

sram would have to be powered and sram is very expensive

 

[Jmmsbnd007]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007

Originally posted by: Marshallj

Originally posted by: deftron
I'm sure it will happen eventually, but it may be sooner than expected.

Right now, the capacity for both is increasing rapidly, but with the 100's of gigabytes
of storage available on hard drives.. most people probably dont use that (except MP3 or porn junkies)

If you could get a computer with say 30 to 40 GB of solid state storage and it was way faster
than hard drives would you do it?

You could always get a removable harddrive to plug in for stuff that takes up a lot of space, but
not always being in your computer will make it not only quieter, but the OS drive much faster.

I think we will start to see this within a couple years..

I doubt it, at least for now.

Hard drives hold much more data, are cheaper, and are faster. Although using a big flash drive would be neat, it doesn't have anywhere near the practicality of a hard drive.

The kind of memory that you're thinking of (the kind that retains the data even after turning the power off) is called flash memory, and its throughput is pretty low. Not anything close to a hard drive.

Actually, he's speaking of SRAM.

sram would have to be powered and sram is very expensive

SRAM = Static RAM. It doesn't take nearly as much power as normal RAM... ugh I need some food. And of course it's expensive.