BitMicro Announces 1.6TB Solid-State Drive

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I think the only thing more impressive than a 1.6TB solid state drive will be the price of this thing (no price has been announced as of yet).

The Altima E3S320 solid state is the first in the 3.5-inch format to advertise a capacity above 1TB. According to a company spokesman, BitMicro launched a solid-state 1TB drive last year but only for users of the Fiber Channel data-transfer format. The latest product, announced this week, has a SCSI, or Small Computer System Interface.
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I'll wait till it's actually out. This was like those HDD companies years ago claiming that we would have 10tb's out by now.
 
Getting a solid state drive of say 80gb to 120gb would be perfect for me with respect to finally being able to build a carputer that would essentially be nearly mechanism-less. Can't wait.
 
Ockie said:
I'll wait till it's actually out. This was like those HDD companies years ago claiming that we would have 10tb's out by now.
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ah HA! So you're the guy behind the Sliverjazz bot!

:D
 
While it sounds cool, I always take announcements like this with a huge grain of salt. How many times have we heard about great new technologies under development that for some reason or another never make it to market?
 
Seeing how fast we went from 500GB to 1TB and how fast the prices go down, I don't see why this would even seem like a big deal. By next year all the big companies will have these drives and we'll probably buy 1TB drives for 100 bucks, like we do the 500GB ones now.
 
The article says transfer speeds of 230 MB/s, but a raptor is 1.5 GB/s. Is this right, I thought SS would be faster than a conventional HDD?
 
I don't know why these announcements are news worthy recently... not picking on [H] just in general. Solid state drives have been around a long time for industrial and military applications. It's news worthy when Samsung announces drives target at consumers (at consumer prices) but the media is picking up on industrial announcements as if consumers actually care.

If it's innovative it's cool to hear about. Like Toshiba's portable nuclear reactor. But when a company just takes existing technology and packs a lot of it together in a super expensive box, I don't see what the big deal is. Seagate releases a new 1TB drive? Cool. Some company packs 200 Seagate drives into a cabinet to offer a 200TB solution that costs more than my house? Meh.
 
daragon said:
The article says transfer speeds of 230 MB/s, but a raptor is 1.5 GB/s. Is this right, I thought SS would be faster than a conventional HDD?
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Where on earth do you the that info?:confused:

Raptor transfer rate is around 90 MB/s. Even Maxtor Atlas 15K II tops around 100 MB/s.
 
daragon said:
The article says transfer speeds of 230 MB/s, but a raptor is 1.5 GB/s. Is this right, I thought SS would be faster than a conventional HDD?
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Most hard drives (including raptors) have read speeds below 100 MB/s. 1.5 GB/s is the transfer limit of SATA (3.0 GB/s for SATA II)
 
Nemesis999 said:
While it sounds cool, I always take announcements like this with a huge grain of salt. How many times have we heard about great new technologies under development that for some reason or another never make it to market?
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Big D. said:
Seeing how fast we went from 500GB to 1TB and how fast the prices go down, I don't see why this would even seem like a big deal. By next year all the big companies will have these drives and we'll probably buy 1TB drives for 100 bucks, like we do the 500GB ones now.
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This is a SOLID STATE drive, not a platter drive. its not just about capacity.
 
Methadras said:
Getting a solid state drive of say 80gb to 120gb would be perfect for me with respect to finally being able to build a carputer that would essentially be nearly mechanism-less. Can't wait.
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I think you mean you will be nearly penny-less?

zdnet said:
Solid-state drives are popular with the military because they offer the security of being able to remove them from a system and secure them elsewhere
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I'm sure that is more important high shock and temperature tolerances...
 
Wasn't there something wrong with solid state drives as far as lifetime or something like that? Like they didn't last as long as platter/disc-based hard drives or something like that?
 
SamuraiInBlack said:
Wasn't there something wrong with solid state drives as far as lifetime or something like that? Like they didn't last as long as platter/disc-based hard drives or something like that?
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To put it simply, every time you write to flash memory it slightly damages it. After a certain number of writes it can't be read/written anymore. Modern flash memory automatically distributes the writes evenly over the entire drive, but it still has a limited lifespan.
 
While it sounds cool, I always take announcements like this with a huge grain of salt. How many times have we heard about great new technologies under development that for some reason or another never make it to market?
 
damn it azhar. It is spreading. You must protect yourself before it gets to you too. It looks like it is too late for Nemesis999 and Ockie. I ate a copy of Norton 360 to protect myself from the computer virus I think I might be safe. I'm pretty sure coughing up blood is a normal side effect of taking Norton 360.
 
Exavior said:
damn it azhar. It is spreading. You must protect yourself before it gets to you too. It looks like it is too late for Nemesis999 and Ockie. I ate a copy of Norton 360 to protect myself from the computer virus I think I might be safe. I'm pretty sure coughing up blood is a normal side effect of taking Norton 360.
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umm....I might be stoned...but what? :confused::confused:
 
I figured it out today. for a 2.5" solid state drive you are paying about $21 (8GB for $170) - $25 (128GB for $3220) per GB.

At that rate you are looking at $34,406 and $40,960 for a 1.6TB drive. Although I would expect the price per GB to be higher so i'd be surprised if they even sold them at $45,000 or less. Seriously how many peopel are going to pay about $50,000 for a harddrive when could get one hell of a raid array system for that price.
 
RadCliffeX said:
umm....I might be stoned...but what? :confused::confused:
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SilverJazz goes around posting the same canned bull shit line every time something is mentioned. Azhar posted saying that Ockie was behind the silverjazz posting after he mentioned waiting for the technlogy to come out, only to have Nemesis999 post the exact same message that silverjazz has posted over and over again. I was trying to joke around about silverjazz "spreading".
 
Exavior said:
Seriously how many peopel are going to pay about $50,000 for a harddrive when could get one hell of a raid array system for that price.
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I'm sure there's some demand for them. Give it another 2-3 years and I imagine you'll be seeing a lot more consumer level/cheaper SSD's, especially in laptops.
 
the article says its SCSI...

kinda retarded - hopefully they mean a SAS drive. Otherwise it would be ... retarded ... as SCSI only supports a 2 TB limit whereas windows and linux can use GPT to go to something like 500 giggawatts :cool:
 
RooK said:
the article says its SCSI...

kinda retarded - hopefully they mean a SAS drive. Otherwise it would be ... retarded ... as SCSI only supports a 2 TB limit whereas windows and linux can use GPT to go to something like 500 giggawatts :cool:
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Don't know much about SCSI, do you? It can go well beyond 2TB, the limiting factor is the filesystem.

SAS would be nice though.
 
Exavior said:
damn it azhar. It is spreading. You must protect yourself before it gets to you too. It looks like it is too late for Nemesis999 and Ockie. I ate a copy of Norton 360 to protect myself from the computer virus I think I might be safe. I'm pretty sure coughing up blood is a normal side effect of taking Norton 360.
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Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
 
I love the advancement of technology and all but all these hard drive size/speed announcements mean squat if its not readily available for use.
 
thats nice, but when someone releases one thats in the 100gb range (for a reasonable price) let me know.

I shudder at how much that much cost.
 
DeathFromBelow said:
I'm sure there's some demand for them. Give it another 2-3 years and I imagine you'll be seeing a lot more consumer level/cheaper SSD's, especially in laptops.
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Yah, i'd assume in a few years the price should be a lot more reasonable, but right now they sure are no where near there. Right now they only seem to be in smaller devices such as laptops. Dell actually gives you the choice between SSD and plater drives. Although who knows, maybe there is demand for a $40,000 harddrive right now by more than just people who spent 6 million on a home theater system. While I don't see a need for one, that doesn't mean that everyone doesn't.

Monkey God said:
thats nice, but when someone releases one thats in the 100gb range (for a reasonable price) let me know.

I shudder at how much that much cost.
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I posted the price right now for a 2.5" 128GB. Newegg has them for $3,220

Note that isn't reasonable though.

Then again I don't consider 8GB for $170 reasonable either.
 
Exavior said:
Yah, i'd assume in a few years the price should be a lot more reasonable, but right now they sure are no where near there. Right now they only seem to be in smaller devices such as laptops. Dell actually gives you the choice between SSD and plater drives. Although who knows, maybe there is demand for a $40,000 harddrive right now by more than just people who spent 6 million on a home theater system. While I don't see a need for one, that doesn't mean that everyone doesn't.
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I can imagine the military and aerospace industry having a need for high-capacity SSDs, regardless of the price.

I posted the price right now for a 2.5" 128GB. Newegg has them for $3,220

Note that isn't reasonable though.

Then again I don't consider 8GB for $170 reasonable either.
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I don't understand why the smaller (64GB) SSD's from Apple/Dell are so expensive (around $1000). You can get a pair of 32 GB compact flash cards and a 2 slot compact flash to 2.5" IDE adapter for less than $400. Not cheap, but not unreasonable for the [H] crowd.
 
SSD's are too expensive thanks to low supply and high demand. Would be nice if Seagate, WD, Hitachi, and other HDD manufacturers would jump on board and start cranking them out. I'd love to see a 500GB SSD in a couple years at the same price as a 500GB SATAII today.


DeathFromBelow said:
You can get a pair of 32 GB compact flash cards and a 2 slot compact flash to 2.5" IDE adapter for less than $400. Not cheap, but not unreasonable for the [H] crowd.
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Why not just go for a couple of these SATA converters and a couple 32GB CF cards?

Total price would be around $380. :cool:
 
Oh wow, I completely misread the title.

Yeah, I guess it'll be more impressive if this comes out and hopefully it'll lower prices for everything else that's already out. I'd love to try one of these drives, but not at such insane prices.
 
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