256GB Samsung SSD Begins Size/Speed/Savings Era

david25 · 26 May 2008 at 18:44

http://www.trustedreviews.com/stora...Samsung-SSD-Begins-New-Size-Speed-Spec-Era/p1

AbsenceJam · 26 May 2008 at 20:07

I see no mention of cost.

milkinc13 · 26 May 2008 at 20:15

arm & a leg if not more, thou i wants one

CrowK · 26 May 2008 at 20:40

From TFA:

Traditionally manufacturers have been stuck with the Single Level Cell (SLC) approach whereby capacities only increase when a single, large (and therefore hugely expensive) slab of flash memory is employed. By contrast, MLC technology means using multiple smaller (and cheaper) flash modules together to create much larger storage capacities. The approach had been tried in the past but until now inefficiencies meant the performance drop-offs were so great that it wasn't a viable option.

If you still aren't getting it, try this: Much larger and cheaper SSDs are on the horizon with no performance sacrifices whatsoever

I take it this is what the OP was driving at

vintage-x · 26 May 2008 at 23:15

to me SSD is the most exciting pc tech since duel core processors. Hopefully in a year we should be able to pick up these drive for sub £100 and I will be slapping one of these into my HTPC as my main drive and 2 of them into my PC in a raid config.

cozm01 · 27 May 2008 at 10:57

I'll wait till they benchmark it against a SLC.

gurusan · 27 May 2008 at 11:00

vintage-x said:
to me SSD is the most exciting pc tech since duel core processors. Hopefully in a year we should be able to pick up these drive for sub £100 and I will be slapping one of these into my HTPC as my main drive and 2 of them into my PC in a raid config.

Yup, I can't wait until they get affordable enough to get a 2x36gb or 2x64gb RAID 0 setup.

180-200mb/sec transfer rate with super low access times

Very fast RAID cards will start becoming more important as these drives get cheaper. People iwll be complaining that their card is keeping their transfer rates to under 500mb/sec !

HeX · 27 May 2008 at 11:06

Not read much lately but how are they progressing with reliability? last I read a few months ago was that there was something like a 25% failure rate for the 64GB SSD's...

mrk · 27 May 2008 at 17:14

Well SSD is the reason I'm holding off buying and installing Vista 64 so hurry up Samsung!!!!

Will delegate the standard 1TB disks for backup and normal storage once the OS is on a SSD to FLYYYYYYY!

helmutcheese · 27 May 2008 at 23:01

Some more of same :

http://www.dailytech.com/Samsung+Se...ead+160MBsec+Write+256GB+SSD/article11883.htm

kleox64 · 28 May 2008 at 10:29

around $4000-$5000 at current flash prices.

Justintime · 28 May 2008 at 17:49

milkinc13 said:
arm & a leg if not more, thou i wants one

you forgot the kidney and spleen

mr griffin · 28 May 2008 at 19:14

256GB

now we are talking. Just comes down to how much these things are gonna cost?.

kleox64 · 28 May 2008 at 20:07

kleox64 said:
around $4000-$5000 at current flash prices.

flash prices drop 40-50% year on year?

milkinc13 · 28 May 2008 at 20:09

prices will come down in a couple of years