Solid State Hard Drives are Here!

[Grayeagle]

http://www.imation.com/products/ssd/index.html

wow.

No more motors right next to data storage mediums.
No more 'seek' speed.
No more mechanical contraptions just to be able to read data.

Man these things were science fiction just a few years ago.
A bit high priced (couple hundred for a 32g ..and up) .. like everything else in electronics tho, it will go down as the market matures.

Holy cow.
I cant wait
'Paging the hard drive' will actually be as fast as RAM .. oooo!!
So .. umm .. a bank of these instead of RAM ..kinda like a 32g RAM chip eh?

-GE aka Frank

[Baitman]

After many dead Hard Drives in my laptop because of the environment it work in. I am very happy to see it out finally.

[indy007]

Back in the Doom 2 days, if you were big pimpin' and had 40 megs of ram, you could create a ramdrive. Copy the game to the ram drive, and prepare for blazing speeds that you had never, ever seen before.

[AKHog]

What is the difference in these and the solid state flash drives that have been around for years?

[Reschke]

Great...now I just have to wait 2-4 years to get one big enough to hold all my pr0n. I can't find a price on a 128GB but if the 64GB is $717 @ buy.com I can bet that the 128 is probably $1k or slightly over that.

I don't see why they are that much with an 8GB flash drive is under $40 now at Best Buy...I know they aren't even close to the same things but still they need to get off the price gouging and move on.

[Vulcan]

capacity.... yawn
random read/write performance.... yawn

Yeah I'll stick to my terabyte seagates thanks

[JAGED]

Great...now I just have to wait 2-4 years to get one big enough to hold all my pr0n. I can't find a price on a 128GB but if the 64GB is $717 @ buy.com I can bet that the 128 is probably $1k or slightly over that.

I don't see why they are that much with an 8GB flash drive is under $40 now at Best Buy...I know they aren't even close to the same things but still they need to get off the price gouging and move on.

The techno-geeks will pave, err pay, the way for the rest of us.  Patience young Padawan...  

[AKHog]

I don't see why they are that much with an 8GB flash drive is under $40 now at Best Buy...I know they aren't even close to the same things but still they need to get off the price gouging and move on.

So what makes them "not even close"?

[JAGED]

So what makes them "not even close"?

Just a guess here, but they aren't limited by the USB speed restrictions...

[Mr No Name]

SSHDs are amazingly fast, my brother works for cisco and I went to a technology show with him, cold boot to full OS load (even for *gag* vista were honestly jaw dropping on midrange to upper speed machines (Test machine with SSHDs was just an old Q6600 - less than 200 for the processor now)

[Curlew]

w00t w00t

[Grayeagle]

Coupla things that intrigue me about SSHD an stuff ...

Like RAM ..if you increase pipleline width, you decrease time for data txfer.
How big a bus could you build a motherboard to handle, along with a matching solid state device ..so in effect the solid state device replaces RAM altogether .. speed of data txfer is a biggie.

Amount of data would be the next priority .. thing about solid state device is, it can be a 3 dimensional grid, unlike a hard drive disc which is 2d.

If solid state device can be made a cube, bus hookups could literally be on each face of it. Not limited to one 2d side or blade.
This would rock data txfer speeds.

Flash drives as stated above are limited to USB speed.. the whole infrastructure of computers as we know them is going to change IMHO.

Why stick to present hard drive format .. go for max data txfer with max data storage, get crazy

You would have slowest component for startup being the video device ..how fast can it light up the screen
Frame rates? .. limited by refresh rate of pixels on the screen

Banzaii baby .. next ten years are gonna be awesome.

-GE (I want my Holodeck)

[Race]

   Where did I see a video that said we were going to have computers smarter than humans by 2025 for less than 1000 dollars? Or one dollar by 2050? Indeed it will be a very exciting time and this is a major step.

Race

[RedDg]

Great...now I just have to wait 2-4 years to get one big enough to hold all my pr0n. I can't find a price on a 128GB but if the 64GB is $717 @ buy.com I can bet that the 128 is probably $1k or slightly over that.

I don't see why they are that much with an 8GB flash drive is under $40 now at Best Buy...I know they aren't even close to the same things but still they need to get off the price gouging and move on.

Watch for the daily sales here: http://edealinfo.com

8GB Flash drives sometimes go for $14.99 with free shipping.

[Meatwad]

   Where did I see a video that said we were going to have computers smarter than humans by 2025 for less than 1000 dollars? Or one dollar by 2050? Indeed it will be a very exciting time and this is a major step.

Race

Or get sucked into the game grid, Tron style