Micron to release RealSSD P200 250mb/s read, 100mb/s write in Q4 2008. 16-128GB sizes

The benefits of SSD is the practically null seek times.. the same benefits that make Raptors expensive :)
 
StevenG said:
250mb/s read???? hmm i get 290mb/s read from a £75 setup and thats 200GB!

whats the reason for buying SSD?

StevenG
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Either you're very annoying or just genuinely not aware of the benefits. Incredibly low seek times remove many of the problems associated with harddrives today, makes searches near instant and makes fragmentation irrelevant. They have the potential to use a lot less power as the fabrication processes are perfected and improved upon, a feat that modern harddrives can only achieve by well, slowing down. On top of that they have the capability to increase storage amounts quicker than harddrives in the future, they make no sound + they have consistant reads across the storage.
 
StevenG said:
250mb/s read???? hmm i get 290mb/s read from a £75 setup and thats 200GB!

whats the reason for buying SSD?

StevenG
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I hope your seriously unaware of the advantages of SSD and not just trying to be a pleb! :p

SSD has little to no seek times, it means booting into windows, loading up applications, task switching are almost instantaneous.

Other than that, there's no moving parts, they generate very little heat and create no noise whilst using a fraction of the power that a regular hard drive uses.


On the op... it's interesting that the P200 will be using SLC whilst the C200 will be using MLC. Hopefully the P200 models wont be hugely expensive, but being aimed at "enterprise solutions" I'd hazard a guess that they will be.
 
nikebee said:
I hope your seriously unaware of the advantages of SSD and not just trying to be a pleb! :p

SSD has little to no seek times, it means booting into windows, loading up applications, task switching are almost instantaneous.

Other than that, there's no moving parts, they generate very little heat and create no noise whilst using a fraction of the power that a regular hard drive uses.


On the op... it's interesting that the P200 will be using SLC whilst the C200 will be using MLC. Hopefully the P200 models wont be hugely expensive, but being aimed at "enterprise solutions" I'd hazard a guess that they will be.
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As long as demand will grow for them it will drive prices down on SLC drives quicker, so that might be a purely good thing :) Can't wait till these get mainstream!
 
clocka said:
Looks like i wont be buying an OCZ Core 32GB afterall, will wait for a 32GB 1 of these i think, 250mb/s read vs 140mb/s read is a no-brainer.
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Trouble with the computer market is you can wait forever for something new to come out and never buy anything in the end.
 
^^^ yep and it totally depends on price, you might get 2 of the OCZ's for the price of a single micron.

for me it's all about the seek speed anyway, £115 for 32gb OCZ is killer.....can't wait till they're in stock.
 
Slackworth said:
Trouble with the computer market is you can wait forever for something new to come out and never buy anything in the end.
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Too true, by the time the Micron has come out you'll read some more news and then say "jees, the Micron SSD's don't come anywhere near these new SSD's... I'll hold off"

And cue a perpetual endless loop!

Solid State Drives have always been a very big part of computing that has captured a larger part of my attention, with prices plumetting (albeit with less MTBF now) and talk of quicker SSD's I've been brought right back into the SSD crowd! :)

The only problem I've got is that I wont be able to afford one for a while as my "new gadgets budget" has been blown on an Acer Aspire One recently. So hopefully in a few months when I can justify a new gadget to myself (and the missus) the OCZ's will still be in stock in places.

The problem I've got is this will be a direct replacement for my WD 74GB Raptor, so realistically I'll need a new regular HDD for larger storage as my Raptor is full as it is! So you can add another £30-£50 on top of the SSD price for me :(
 
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