Solid State HDD

[Hito Bahadur]

Wouldn't this be great for a nice little windows folding box (except for the cost, of course):

http://ec.transcendusa.com/product/ItemDetail.asp?ItemID=TS4GIFD25

 

[piako]

Does it loose all data if unpowered? I think we all would agree that's it's a fact that the hdd is the noisiest and slowest part of the computer.

 

[Hito Bahadur]

Think these hold their memory. Flash devices, not RAM.

 

[unhappy_mage]

Haha:

Shock Resistance : 1G

Whew, it can stand up to sitting motionless on a table! I was worried about that...

 

[BillR]

This has been around for a while now:

http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/gigabyte-iram/index.x?pg=1

From what I have read it's a really great place to aim the swap file, although you can of course run app from it as well.

 

[Hito Bahadur]

Two different techs bill.

The one I linked was Flash or static Ram, like a USB flash drive on steriods. The one you linked was a RAM variant that needs to be constantly powered so it doesn't lose the information. The flash is slower, but doesn't lose the memory, wouldn't be as good for a swap file but great to eventually replace laptop HDDs when they get bigger.

 

[BillR]

Two different techs bill.

The one I linked was Flash or static Ram, like a USB flash drive on steriods. The one you linked was a RAM variant that needs to be constantly powered so it doesn't lose the information. The flash is slower, but doesn't lose the memory, wouldn't be as good for a swap file but great to eventually replace laptop HDDs when they get bigger.

Yup, I was just pointing out the other tech.

Way back in the days when IBM actually made drives they had a solid state HD, I actually got to to play with one. It was slow and at the time way beyond affordable. At that time there was a lifespan issue as well. I've actually had usb drives wear out so that issue might still be a problem as well.