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New Samsung flash HD

Maybe in laptops, where they would be less prone to damage, but desktop users want large amounts of space that flash drives cannot deliver.
 
I'd definitely take one for my OS, but NOT in IDE form. If they release it in SATA form, I'll tell you how they perform.
 
I see this as just the beginning of a revolution in storage. As other manufacturers look to bring competing products to market the tendency to improve on the existing offerings will spur development in the chips used and the manufacturing process.The prices will surely come down and in a few years we may all be buying flash based drives with 1TB or more of storage capacity and transfer rates that rival that of the FSB itself.
 
If things go as they usualy do this will be 100g/b and 1/2 the price in a year. I would love to try this as a boot disc when the price stabilizes. 😀

Amos 😎
 
I'm buying a couple to put in raid when the price is fair. I never use that much space anyway. Plus they are going to be faster, cooler, and use less power. And I really want my silent PC too.
 
I read the entire article and I didn't see why they had to run in ATA/66. Was it a driver issue? A configuration issue? All of the read benchmarks were pegged by the ATA/66 bandwidth limitation. Crank it up to SATA/150 and let's see what it can do with 2x the bandwidth...

And why didn't they run a latency comparison.? The biggest advantage that Flash has over magnetic hard disks is the non-sequential read latency... it should be several hundred times faster (theoretically anyway). In fact, he shows a bunch of reviews showing that read bandwidth is lower than conventional hard disks and then shows that boot speeds and IOMeter are much faster but never mentions that this is due to the huge latency advantage.
 
For those who can use it, it's terrific.
IMO, the majority will continue using today's HDDs.
 
What's the main difference between this and the i-Ram drive? I know obviously the Samsung drive is a regular solid-state drive that does not take DIMMs but at the same time, is it not serving the same purpose or functionality? Wasn't the i-Ram a flop?
 
This isn't going to replace my network attached bulk storage anytime soon; but I'd love to swap out my laptop's drive.
 
i wonder how that thing keeps its memory, i mean its volitile memory, does it go away when you unplug the thing? i dont see a battery of any type on it.

What's the main difference between this and the i-Ram drive? I know obviously the Samsung drive is a regular solid-state drive that does not take DIMMs but at the same time, is it not serving the same purpose or functionality? Wasn't the i-Ram a flop?
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the i-ram flopped because it used expensive desktop DIMMs. it was a pioneer for this movement, but samsung is able to get away with using probably less quality and higher latency chips, and not having to build PCB's for the DIMMS. they are cheaper because they lose thier ability to also function as desktop memory. its my guess though.
 
Originally posted by: Spikesoldier
i wonder how that thing keeps its memory, i mean its volitile memory, does it go away when you unplug the thing? i dont see a battery of any type on it.

What's the main difference between this and the i-Ram drive? I know obviously the Samsung drive is a regular solid-state drive that does not take DIMMs but at the same time, is it not serving the same purpose or functionality? Wasn't the i-Ram a flop?
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the i-ram flopped because it used expensive desktop DIMMs. it was a pioneer for this movement, but samsung is able to get away with using probably less quality and higher latency chips, and not having to build PCB's for the DIMMS. they are cheaper because they lose thier ability to also function as desktop memory. its my guess though.
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it's not volatile. it's flash memory.



if you want flash memory for your boot drive, just get an 8GB CF card and an IDE->CF adapter. CF is built with the ATA spec.
 
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