Any info on flash memory based hard disks?

drak3 · 20 Jan 2007 at 14:41

With flash memory capacitys at 16GB now are there any thoughts for flash memory to replace mechanical?

mosfet · 20 Jan 2007 at 18:42

There are lots and lots of thoughts, and google will tell you far more than anyone here can. CES 2007 just last week had a few solid state disks on display for laptop systems.

HEADRAT · 20 Jan 2007 at 21:30

Problem is that while seek times are amazing as there is no head tracking across a platter the throughput stinks ATM, now once they can sort that out we'll be in business.

Obviously at the moment this makes more sense for laptops are they are solid state and draw less power than a HD.

HEADRAT

mosfet · 20 Jan 2007 at 21:36

Actually many of the offerings at CES had >60MBps average throughput, with no falloff (as with constant RPM platters).

bigstevex · 20 Jan 2007 at 21:49

Didn't Adata have a 32 and 64GB version on show? I read it somewhere, they will ship later this year the 64gb version costs $1000

mosfet · 21 Jan 2007 at 13:47

They did display 16GB to 128GB models AFAIK, and I think they'll be considerably less than the prices we're expecting - there's a huge amount of competition in this field now: Sandisk, Samsung, ADATA and Supertalent are all releasing large SSDs this year all with respectable data throughputs.