Solid-state harddrives on the way!

trojan698 · 16 Nov 2006 at 16:22

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4962

Goodbye Mr Raptor, you noisy fiend!

Cyber-Mav · 17 Nov 2006 at 00:29

want one of these just for the reliability reasons. would be excellent as a boot and os drive. wonder if its as fast as the iram

^JP^ · 17 Nov 2006 at 00:31

Any info on price/size/availability?

Cyber-Mav · 17 Nov 2006 at 12:34

32gig drive. but question is how long will it last. will cost around 100 quid which is not too bad for a 32gig drive.

trojan698 · 17 Nov 2006 at 13:53

dailytech said:
Consider a typical computer that writes 120 megabytes per hour to the hard drive. On a 32GB solid-state NAND drive, wear leveling would distribute this data over the entire drive -- it would take 267 hours to fill the device once. Even on a multi-cell flash device, at this rate it would take no less than 150 years to burnout all the bits on the SSD. Single-cell drives are capable of ten times as many writes.

Firegod · 17 Nov 2006 at 18:12

So what's the advantages of these, basically no moving parts so instant access, etc?

Cheers.

Cyber-Mav · 17 Nov 2006 at 18:37

yea access times no longer milli seconds but nano seconds. and no moving parts means no failure. and power consumption of under 1w max.

but who writes 120mb per hour? some of use do 120gigs in a hour. depends on usage but when putting a new install on or using for backup etc.

probably worth getting one for peace of mind for a minimum of 10 years. i mean who is gonna hang on to a 32gig flash drive for 50 years? by then we will be using isolinear crystals for storage.

trojan698 · 10 Jan 2007 at 15:54

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5645

16gb and 32gb variants scheduled for Q2

manoz · 10 Jan 2007 at 16:18

Not available in SATA though?

rpstewart · 10 Jan 2007 at 16:29

manoz said:
Not available in SATA though?

Unsurprising to be honest, the biggest market initially for these is going to be mobile devices - PDAs, laptops & MP3 players where the low power consumption and shock resistance will be most useful. So it makes sense to go with interfaces which make integration into existing products easy, that way you don't need someone to go through a whole product design and release cycle before you (as a manufacturer) start supplying drives in bulk.

Pitspawn · 10 Jan 2007 at 16:52

I remember seeing some benchies of that drive when it was in development on a hardware review site. The drive was in a league of its own, most of the graphs looked like someone trying to compare EDO bandwidth with DDR2-8500 Anyone have a link of what I'm talking about?

33L · 10 Jan 2007 at 18:57

i will be lining up for one of these for my os drive on my gamiong machine should makes things nice and fast

mrthingyx · 10 Jan 2007 at 20:57

These types of drive are actually quite available already.

Access times are very fast, but transfer rates are REEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAALY slow - they get absolutely battered by even the slowest SATA hardware.

The point of the first generation of SSHDs will be low power consumption: suitable for long-term archiving and data storage, laptops and whatnot. Front-line, high-speed access will still be platter-based for a good, long while.