Solid-State drives this year

[GRIdpOOL]

This was designed to be for the portable disk but I want it for the PC. They are really pretty snappy and would be much better for heat in the case. Along with all of the advantages of SSD, this is something I will buy.
Linq

 

[ssvegeta1010]

Nice, one of these could really help out in an ultraportable laptop. Weight and heat wise.

 

[mwmorph]

too little storage for an ungodly expensive price.

 

[airfoil]

I have to say I'm impressed but obviously not enought o buy one of these .

Perhaps Hard drives will eventually be reaplced by SSDs?

 

[Tostada]

These drives are using flash memory -- you know, the stuff that's half as much as RAM, but it maxes out at 10 MB/sec. That article lists 57 Mbits. That's 7.125 MB/sec (or maybe even 6.8 MB/sec if they're using 1 Mbit = 1000 bits) which is a really pathetic read rate, and it only writes at 4 MB/sec.

When people talk about solid state drives, they usually mean the ridiculously fast ridiculously expensive ones. Power consumption really seems to be the only strong point of these new Samsung things.

The drives will also include performance rate by a claimed 150 per cent

Nice English. Is that supposed to say "increase performance by a claimed 150%"? How is 7 MB/sec an increase in performance? All modern laptop drives can transfer 30 MB/sec. Hitachi's 5400 RPM laptop drives reach 39 MB/sec. I haven't even seen benchmarks on the 7200 RPM ones. I can't imagine anybody wanting something over four times slower just to save some battery life.

 

[Pariah]

SAMSUNG Electronics Develops Solid State Disk Using NAND Flash Technology

"The storage disk reads data at 57 MegaBytes per second (MBps) and writes it at 32MBps."

That's Megabytes, not megabits, which is almost 100% faster than the average STR of the current notebook leader the 7K60 (29MB/s) and over 200% faster than the slowest point of the 7K60. The inquirer is run by a bunch of monkeys. No access times are listed, but since it is a SSD drive, the STR should be pretty much exactly the same udner all read conditions since the drive has no latency, and seek time should be identical to all parts of the chips. Compared to a fragmented winchester drive, this drive's constant 57MB/s read rates could easily be 10 times faster or more than a conventional drive.

Interesting product, but even 16GB, though useable as a notebook drive, is pretty small, and the price which is likely to be ugly will determine how attractive this line will be.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Sweet, I get along more than fine on my iBook's 20GB HDD, I usually have 10GB to spare at all times and only keep a reduced lossy collection of music than my full collection on my PC. I could probably even get by with an 8GB version. However I think it'll be a while before I'm actually using one.

It didn't seem likely that we'd see laptops improve much in (lack of) battery consumption. Future P-M/Centrino + stuff like this and we'll be seeing long lasting laptops that can pack quite a punch.

 

[akugami]

Anyone know where I can sell one of my kidneys so I can afford one of these things?

 

[Maluno]

I want one of these for pc for my OS partition and possibly some apps. Will there be a way to buy these retail anytime soon, and if so, what kind of interface are they using?

 

[Tostada]

Originally posted by: Pariah
SAMSUNG Electronics Develops Solid State Disk Using NAND Flash Technology

"The storage disk reads data at 57 MegaBytes per second (MBps) and writes it at 32MBps."

Well in that case it's pretty good. I guess we'd have to see some benchmarks to see how it actually compares to a real hard drive, though.

I can't imagine the price of 16GB of flash memory being very reasonable when 8GB compact flash cards are almost $700.

 

[Maluno]

I read somewhere (it was just a second ago and now i cant remember where lol) that they will be ~$900. Not too bad, but I would want higher performance for that price...

 

[n0cmonkey]

I'd be able tog et away with 10GB on a laptop. I definitely want one. Or maybe one of those drives with 1GB of flash or whatever to cache data.

 

[PlatinumGold]

oh this will be great to get for my Tablet PC. all i need installed on the Tablet is the OS and mb one or two demo apps.

 

[vegetation]

Will work great for ultraportables. Battery life on these things is everything. You don't buy them for performance.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Nice, I wonder what kind of price they'll come at.

 

[modedepe]

Nice, I hope they aren't horribley overpriced. I'd definitely be interested in one of these.

 

[DanDaMan315]

Well this is just a sign of things to come.

 

[ionoxx]

I would like to put a couple of these in a RAID 0 on a desktop. That would make unhealthy HL2 load times as well as amazing Database server work. The 2.5" SSD drives would work nicely in those 10x2.5 drive 1U racks. Add in 2x 275Opterons and 4Gb of ram. That would be amazing...... *drool*

 

[gsellis]

The video guys are drooling over these as the new JVC HDPro camera has two solid state slots on it. They are excited with even 8GB at $1500 a pop, which only give 18 minutes of record space with 2 of them in the camera. Wish I had that budget. Already lots of talk about getting regular drives to work with the configuration, but they will not work in the field as well (example - Electronic News Gathering (ENG) on the battle field or any Mike Tyson press conference).