World's First 1 TB 2.5" SSD from PureSilicon Is the Dream Drive

Final8y · 3 Mar 2009 at 17:20

pureSilicon has created what seems to be the first 1 TB, 2.5" SSD. One terabyte, dudes. 2 and a half inches. Wrap your brain around that.

The drive, named the Nitro (because it's as fast as nitrogen? Is nitrogen fast?), is the first to hit the impressive barrier of this size and capacity, achieved through an ultra-thin enclosure and some innovative data storage architecture. Four of these drives can fit in the same space as one 3.5" drive, and pureSilicon claims its speed "approaches" the SATA II max of 300 MB/s. Unfortunately, it's targeted at servers and other large dull users like the military, rather than a sweet new consumer laptop. But now that the bar is lifted yet again, we're that much further along our quest for the One True Drive. The Nitro should be released sometime this year for an undisclosed price.

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torN · 3 Mar 2009 at 17:37

Awesome. But i'd hate to see the price tag.

Paul11 · 3 Mar 2009 at 17:42

goes to show how quickly SSD will become the main stream and the old HD technology will die a sudden death

Mercutio · 3 Mar 2009 at 17:55

I can see you getting pocket change from 3k for it too

G J · 3 Mar 2009 at 17:56

Oh i thought 750GB was gonna be the next big thing and now they go stright to 1TB, lovely :cool:

. Cant wait till these high capacity drives become mass affordable

Tonyator · 3 Mar 2009 at 18:21

Yeah will be good when prices come down.

james.miller · 3 Mar 2009 at 18:25

Paul11 said:
goes to show how quickly SSD will become the main stream and the old HD technology will die a sudden death

ooooh it predicts the future!

how quickly? want to put money on it?

It's still far too expensive to become 'the' main stream - and they'd have to sell a hell of a lot of them to overtake mechanical drives

Paul11 · 3 Mar 2009 at 18:31

james.miller said:
ooooh it predicts the future!

how quickly? want to put money on it?

It's still far too expensive to become 'the' main stream - and they'd have to sell a hell of a lot of them to overtake mechanical drives

its expensive now, but the prices will drop as production increases. just like every other bit of computer and consumer technology.

i dont remember mentioning a time scale, so how your ready to put your money on it , im not sure.

all i said was that the technology was developing quickly and it will become mainstream and replace old HD technology. and it will

and if you dont think thats a good prediction of the future, then id like to hear yours ?

cookie64 · 3 Mar 2009 at 19:11

there probably start putting them in pc shops with small ssd for the o/s and programs but have a secondary mechanical one for storage to keep the price down for the masses much like most of us are doing or going to be doing in the not so distance future

i give it till winter this year till you can go to your local pc store and get a pre built desktop with ssd in it

FaceplantSi · 3 Mar 2009 at 19:35

Yeah I'm gonna leave it till the end of the year before making the switch to SSD boot drive, would love to try RAID 0 on some of these newer SSD's as their transfer rates really are hitting the mark now.

Fortunately my boss at work is a gadget man so I've been working on getting him into SSD's as we use a lot of high spec laptops. Fingers crossed I'll get some testing in on their money before taking the plunge myself!

jimmy29 · 3 Mar 2009 at 19:36

I wish manufacturers would look at improving the speed of smaller SSDs rather than going for capacity. How mnay people really need 1TB of solid state storage? Conventional hard disks are fine for that.

drak3 · 3 Mar 2009 at 19:43

jimmy29 said:
I wish manufacturers would look at improving the speed of smaller SSDs rather than going for capacity. How mnay people really need 1TB of solid state storage? Conventional hard disks are fine for that.

Unfortunately, it's targeted at servers and other large dull users like the military, rather than a sweet new consumer laptop.

Richiev4 · 3 Mar 2009 at 19:51

crang2k said:
Awesome. But i'd hate to see the price tag.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l91ISfcuzDw

jimmy29 · 3 Mar 2009 at 19:55

^^ I was speaking about the general trend, not this particular example.

Paul11 · 3 Mar 2009 at 19:55

Richiev4 said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l91ISfcuzDw

that takes me back to ocuk forums ?

james.miller · 3 Mar 2009 at 20:58

Paul11 said:
its expensive now, but the prices will drop as production increases. just like every other bit of computer and consumer technology.

that's stating the obvious surely?

i dont remember mentioning a time scale, so how your ready to put your money on it , im not sure.

you said it goes to show how quickly....im asking you how quickly?!

and if you dont think thats a good prediction of the future, then id like to hear yours ?

no i dont think it is, because it wont be quick at all.

Paul11 · 3 Mar 2009 at 22:04

james.miller said:
no i dont think it is, because it wont be quick at all.

well how quick is quick ?

i think quick will be by the end of this year/beginning of next we will see a major increase in the development of speed and size of SSD to the point that they become a serious option compared to current HD's

how slowly do you think it will take ?

sja360 · 3 Mar 2009 at 23:23

i think currently its important for ssd's to improve in capacity instead of speeds, as speed and access times are quite good. People at first (and still do i suppose) complained about the lack of capacity, and they will until 500GB if not more drive sizes are readily available.

Talrinys · 4 Mar 2009 at 08:09

jimmy29 said:
I wish manufacturers would look at improving the speed of smaller SSDs rather than going for capacity. How mnay people really need 1TB of solid state storage? Conventional hard disks are fine for that.

Well what really needs to happen is just for the natural process of getting the manufacturing technology improved so the power consumption can go down and chips can have more memory, with that improvement they should be able to keep improving speed and simply do some internal RAID or something like that to boost the speeds a lot. There are improvements over mechanical hard drives that are worth a bit of a sacrifice in speed though.

james.miller · 4 Mar 2009 at 18:33

Paul11 said:
well how quick is quick ?

i think quick will be by the end of this year/beginning of next we will see a major increase in the development of speed and size of SSD to the point that they become a serious option compared to current HD's

how slowly do you think it will take ?

becomming a serious option for enthusiasts and becomming 'mainstream' are different things, and i believe you are talking about the former. unless they get over these write and lifespan issues they will never take over mechanical drive in critical areas - servers, work stations ect. if they dont do that then i cant see the sales taking over mechanical drives any time in the near future. im talking a few years at least before they become a serious consideration, let alone take over. that will take longer unless they either fix these issues or a new storage method is introduced.