I want to buy SSD serial ATA

[PhoenixOrion]

any online merchants?

thanx.

 

[SuperNaruto]

SSD is new.. affordable doesn't exist yet.. looking at avg 300-1000 for 32 - 64 gb


EDIT:
Samsung announced that it will deliver RiDATA branded SSDs with capacities of 16GB and 32GB in Q2 2007. The drives will be available in 1.8" and 2.5" form-factors with ATA and IDE interfaces.


Q2 of this year..

 

[PhoenixOrion]

any projected msrp's for 16GB ridatas?

 

[tommo123]

dont know about the US but the 16GB and 32GB ones are for sale now in the UK here's one example.

56MB/s read, 32MB/s write speeds. price is expensive though. i would love a cheap 4GB one for the swap file though

 

[ribbon13]

Originally posted by: SuperNaruto
SSD is new..

This is blatantly false. I've had one form of SSD or another for the past 6 years. Compared to then, it's affordability has improved several orders of magnitude.

M-Systems was the de facto player in this market for as long as I can remember. And Samsung just bought em. So guess who really designed that shiny new RiData?

I had these long before you could even find Samsung and SSD in the same news article.
http://www.m-systems.com/site/en-US/Pro...s_/SATA_Products/FFD_25_Serial_ATA.htm

Anyways... any ideas of using a SSD for a paging file is terribly backwards. The flash can only be written so many times, and even with write-leveling logic in place, a OS paging/hibernation file doesn't belong on a SSD. Actually it would be better to have Windows on the SSD for it's high IOPs and since the OS files aren't modified that often, and the paging file/user profiles/temp folders on a separate standard HDD.

 

[Jiggz]

New maybe for you and others but this technology has been out for almost a decade except it cost thousands to get one.

SSD

Samsung on the otherhand is making it available to the general public!