Seriously cool technology

[SteveOBHave]

http://www.adtron.com/products/A25fb-SerialATAFlashDisk.html

...if you're willing to part with $3000 US with a 65MB/sec sustained read rate and a 55MB/sec sustained write speed which is fairly good in the grand scale of things. It seems that the days of HD platters and moving parts are limited... thankfully

 

[4p]

samsung were trying to do this i thinks.

yay!

 

[Gibbs]

It seems that the days of HD platt...coming onto the market with 2-3years at least

 

[crazyswede]

This one goes up to 128GB

http://www.adtron.com/products/A35fb-SerialATAFlashDisk.html

I will have to get 2 of them and raid them

 

[manoz]

I heard that these Flash Hard drives don't last as long as normal HDDs cos you can only write to them a certain amount of times?

 

[SteveOBHave]

I heard that these Flash Hard drives don't last as long as normal HDDs cos you can only write to them a certain amount of times?

Why would that be? Doesn't make sense to me. It's no different to a USB Flash drive and that has no limit on writes.

 

[crazyswede]

Why would that be? Doesn't make sense to me. It's no different to a USB Flash drive and that has no limit on writes.

There is a limit, even on usb flash drives... I will run off and see if I can find out some information

 

[SteveOBHave]

There is a limit, even on usb flash drives... I will run off and see if I can find out some information

How interesting - learn something new every day:

Flash memory has a write endurance limit. This limit is the number of times the flash memory cell can be written until it can not be restored to its initial condition. The industry refers to this as the erase cycles. The endurance is rated between 10,000 and 100,000 erase cycles for different types flash memories.

Source: http://www.imation.com/didyouknow/technology_info/USB_Flash_Drives_Take_it_with.html

 

[sja360]

i think the big deal for me with the change to magnetic to the flash drives would be the lack of noise created
no more groans or seekin noises

 

[crazyswede]

This might be true...

Samsung is estimating 1,000,000 hours / 1,000,000 write cycles.

 

[Amp34]

They would be superb in a low power HTPC as the OS only HDD with all media streamed from another PC. It would make the main noise vanish.

 

[Fulcrum]

Cant you allready get this. A PCI card with normal ram battery backed up, I realise theres greater potential for development here but its nothing revolutionary to me

 

[Deleted member 58846]

cute technology

 

[KizZ]

Yay! So does that mean we can have a TOTALLY silent PC now? CPUs can run on passive cooling (I think), GPUS can aslo, mobos, and PSUs.

 

[Deleted member 58846]

Yay! So does that mean we can have a TOTALLY silent PC now? CPUs can run on passive cooling (I think), GPUS can aslo, mobos, and PSUs.

CORRECT!

 

[manoz]

Even with this tech, PSUs are still the hardest to make soundproof if you want an uber one since most have fans. Watercooling can help those that want a quiet performance PC(beware of pump noise). And passive cooling can help those office folk. Personally I can't wait to build a PC cos I know that it'll be quieter then my figging laptop