BitMicro Announces 1.6TB Solid-State Drive

[falconman]

but a couple of those puppies in a raid 5 array...

or retire

 

[DeathFromBelow]

Why not just go for a couple of these SATA converters and a couple 32GB CF cards?

Total price would be around $380.

Same thing. I was just referring to a particular version I saw for laptops.

 

[Monkey God]

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.

Why not just go for a couple of these SATA converters and a couple 32GB CF cards?

Total price would be around $380.

Thats a great idea, and reasonably priced!!!

 

[falconman]

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.




Why not just go for a couple of these SATA converters and a couple 32GB CF cards?

Total price would be around $380.

Where are you finding 32gb cf cards for cheep?

 

[hl3395]

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.




Why not just go for a couple of these SATA converters and a couple 32GB CF cards?

Total price would be around $380.

I never knew those existed. Do they transfer at pretty much the speed of the rating on the CF you put in?
If so, you could raid 6 of these together and get 120mb/s
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208389
costs you only $1.1k for 192GB
Would finally have some use for the 8+ SATA connectors all these new mobos ship with.
For 1.6TB you would need 50 SATA connectors giving you an unheard of 1gb/s transfer at a cost of $10,000 lol

 

[falconman]

What is the expected read speed/data transfer speed for solid state drives?

Im guessing they are most useful because of the power saving capabilities?

 

[computerpro3]

Look at mtron's line of SSD's. Performance faster than a raptor - sometimes by over double or triple.

The ssd shipping in the soon to be released Lenovo Thinkpad X300 has 130mb read speed and 100mb write speed.

 

[falconman]

Does anyone know when the price will be released?

 

[Riftsaw]

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).

But can it tell why kids love cinnamon toast crunch?

 

[[Tripod]MajorPayne]

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?

Do you have this in a .txt file so that you can copy and paste it into every thread about new technology? Seriously...