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solid-state mass storage

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where are we on this new tech., how long until we see an 100gb solid-state drive? and how much is it going to cost initialy?
 
32GB flash drives are available for laptops currently. They cost ~$600.

They have super fast seek times, so instead of 4-8ms you have seek times on the order of a few ns, basically as fast as the controller is capable. However transfer rates are slow compared to standard hard drives.. EG, you can find the file instantly, but it takes longer to copy. So in normal use, they will seem slower than current drives. The reason they are laptop drives initially is that they are tougher, and will not die from a drop as easily.

As for DRAM drives EG: Gigabyte I-Ram, they have different limitations, mostly size, and the fact that when turned off they forget everything.. But they are fast.
 
thanks.

is this it for this tech.? will the recordable ones get better, how long until it? (a year, 2?)
 
You can play with it now, for certain things. High speed SD & MMC with a good reader are blisteringly fast where your application uses lots of scattered small files. They're just a little bit slower than a laptop drive in throughput, but vastly faster for large #s of accesses/transactions.

Plus, it can alleviate those transactions from the load on your regular HD.

I think there's alot of tricks you could do with the PATH variable, DLL cache location, and mounting volumes in particular directories that could greatly accelerate general windows performance (while not burning out the flash mem too fast).
 
venm11 said:
I think there's alot of tricks you could do with the PATH variable, DLL cache location, and mounting volumes in particular directories that could greatly accelerate general windows performance (while not burning out the flash mem too fast).
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people like you ... we need more of you ... haha anyway good ideas
 
Lazn_Work said:
As for DRAM drives EG: Gigabyte I-Ram, they have different limitations, mostly size, and the fact that when turned off they forget everything.. But they are fast.
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This is not true. They feature battery backup with a decent time thats more than reasonable when transporting your computer... you can further this backup time by using a UPS unit to keep the battery alive alone.
 
That depends what their business does ;)

Heavy, heavy database work could benefit - if you're running a big online store, you could keep your orders on one of these (a smaller one - who has 1TB of outstanding orders?) Or linear HD video editing - imagine what 3GB/s of real random I/O could do to processing times!

Also, see their "success stories" page.
 
Lazn_Work said:
The reason they are laptop drives initially is that they are tougher, and will not die from a drop as easily.
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I think lower power consumption is the primary reason for the use of NAND based notebook drives.
 
good. prices will get cheap the more people have this thing.
this thing is like a dream. imagine the sound this thing makes (or doesn't).
 
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