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- 01-08-2009 12:00 PM #1
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Proud Staff MemberSolild State Disks
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There have been a number of Solid State Disk announcements here at CES so far.
SanDisk is showing their Gen2 drives on 43nm lines. Capacities are currently announced up to 256GB.
Pricing for 128GB is $199 with 256 coming in linearly priced at $399.
Toshiba is also showing new generation drives (also on 43nm lines. They have announced capacities up to 512GB. Pricing is the same for 128 and 256GB SanDisk drives. The 512GB drive is shipping in sample quantities for $1699 in the first quarter and will come down significantly from there when it is shipping in production quantities. Not announced but expect it to be around $1K. The highest capacity drives always carry a pricing premium.
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- 01-08-2009 07:49 PM #2
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Proud Staff MemberI saw a 1TB solid state drive from pureSi, but they wouldn't give me a price on it.
- 01-08-2009 07:50 PM #3
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Solid State Disks rule... until you get the bill for your purchase.
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- 01-08-2009 07:54 PM #4
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Proud Staff MemberThat 1TB has a bandwidth of 250mb/sec.
- 01-09-2009 02:42 PM #5
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Proud Staff MemberIntel is showing their SSDs, rated as the fatest for data transfer. I own an 80gb version, and can testify that it is very quick.
They were showing the 80gb and a new 160gb, price typically $500 & $900 respectively.
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This is the future of hard drives (will replace the hard drives) as they would end up being cheaper after they end up being mass produces, take up less space, and will be great for laptops and portable devices. I can see an adapter being made available to convert a regular hard disk drive into solid state drives and having multiple solid state drives be able to be added like you would add memory.
- 01-10-2009 02:29 AM #7
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Proud Staff MemberI can't wait till they incorporate this into DVR's
- 01-10-2009 09:32 AM #8
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That would be great. The heat factor would be gone for the most part.
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- 01-10-2009 01:46 PM #9
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Power consumption will go down too, and it will be totally shock resistant. It will also last longer. A hard drive is in principle like having a 70's era FM Stereo analog receiver. It works nice, but it's an mechanical tuner. Or an analog watch with gears and springs. It's ancient technology
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Almost as excited about that as well as 32 of them in a RAID array for my SQL servers. Originally Posted by Claude Greiner 
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