Solid State HDDs at OCUK

very very low seek times = good. the low transfer speed isnt so good. tbh i cant say for certain how that would affect windows if it were installed on the device but id love to see some proper benchmarks.
 
Good to see them hitting the mainstream, but they're obviously overpriced and underperforming.

Very low seek times are the obvious benefit, as well as zero noise and virtually no heat output, but their massive price per gigabyte and poor read/write speeds make them no competition to disk drives.

I really can't wait to see SSDs challenge HDDs in terms of transfer speed and price, however, the HDD is the last component that remains almost unchanged since the dawn of computing.
 
mosfet said:
the HDD is the last component that remains almost unchanged since the dawn of computing.
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I imagine within 3 years they'll be able to compete with HDDs it certain areas - Laptops and UMPCs, portable media players and other portable, low-power devices such as phones, cameras, GPS devices etc - but it'll take much longer, possibly up to 10 years before the disk is replaced in the desktop, workstation, server and general high-performance markets.
 
Lovely. Been waiting for these.

Going to use one in one of my New HTPC projects coming up.

Have all the media and other stuff in a backend server and one of these in the front end paired with a completely silent and passive Mini ITX system. Sweet.
 
jaykay said:
even if its in ide i dont think it is even bottlenecked by it
though the price is pretty steep
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it's not the IDE transfer rate that I care about, its the mass of IDE cabling and the acquisition of IDE RAID cards to deal with if one were to stripe these things to get a decent speed out of them.
 
Conrad11 said:
Lovely. Been waiting for these.

Going to use one in one of my New HTPC projects coming up.

Have all the media and other stuff in a backend server and one of these in the front end paired with a completely silent and passive Mini ITX system. Sweet.
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Why use one of these instead of an (comparatively) inexpensive CF card and adaptor? It's not like you're gonna be storing media on it.
 
Only the very fastest CF cards would approach the speeds that these devices can deliver, and most CF readers won't support such transfer rates. CF cards don't have native damage control as Samsung SSDs do, nor the Read/Write cycles allowance.
 
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