Toshiba said Wednesday that it will showcase a 512GB solid-state drive at the Consumer Electronics Show next month and begin shipments in the second quarter of 2009.To date, this would be one of the largest-capacity solid-state drives for use in laptops and come close to matching the size of mobile hard-disk drives.
Toshiba said it is releasing a broad family of "fast read/write SSDs" based on 43-nanometer Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND flash technology that will be showcased at CES. MLC technology allows solid-state drive makers to deliver higher capacity drives at lower prices.
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Add 1 lung and a kidney and you almost there.
Now imagine getting 4 of these in raid0
Don't need an arm or a leg but I'll give you one for an organ.
Don't need an arm or a leg but I'll give you one for an organ.
Actually as the amount of GB's they stuff in, the price per each GB goes down so your estimates are probably a bit high. It's the same standard that applies to hard drives
It is roughly linear with capacity, unlike conventional drives."
$1800 may be a bit high, but it's close. Maybe $1600. There is only a small discount for larger capacity due to them keeping the same amount of cache and so on.
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Now imagine getting 4 of these in raid0
Ummm.. excuse me! I don't think I want four hard drive in me, thanks. Unless the price is right... how much you payin?
The newest Velocity Raptors aren't even as fast as some of the SSDs on this page Click here
It's already catching up to the traditional hard drives.
Since there is no "mechanical energy" needed for that kind of storage, does anyone know if it consumes less power? I heard that it was a hoax to say that it consumes less, but I don't understand why?
It wasn't a hoax, just as with anything some brands are considerably better than others.
one of OCZ's drives was the first to really put the others in their place, with a native SATA controller it floored everything in performance and low power consumption.
Conventional drives that use less power and don't make much noise are generally SLOW. These SSDs are roughly 4x faster, you can't compare. You should compare to a Raptor drive instead.
Edit: Also, in comparing oranges to oranges: http://www.gadgetvenue.com/1tb-laptop-drive-10152115/
Hitachi planned to announce a 1TB conventional laptop drive in 2011. That means currently the largest one is still 512GB. Same size as this Toshiba drive. SSDs have caught up already. Stop comparing these laptop drives to desktop drives.
If you want to compare apples to apples: http://gizmodo.com/352839/16tb-ssd-is-larg...-cant-afford-it
That's a 1.6GB Flash drive released in February 2008.
Last edited by Sacha on 18 Dec 2008 - 03:04
lol
Me too.
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Dude, we're so geek
there are some usb card reader dongles that dont need power. but This discussion is on SSD's, not USB hubs or card readers
Keep in mind some of the current MLC SSD drives have crazy slow writes.
I hear that. Kinda like buying up the LGA775 boards and the Core2 series chips. If the price is right....
How RELIABLE are these drives??? I'd think that to some people, perhaps more than that whole "speed" thing, the main draw of these are the fact that the technology has been shown to be very reliable.
Your computer would be outdated by several generations and the device would start to change colors from old age before you'd lose data from them.
You're worried about read/writes with SSD? Haven't you read documentation on them? Your "cheerful" SATA HDD will die a dozen deaths before a SSD starts to go out. When an SSD "dies" (stop accepting new writes), you should be able to just copy your data off on to another device.
These drives are data striped, have advanced controllers and about 64MB of cache. This stuff isn't free. There's also a premium due to Toshiba being the only one with a high performance 512GB and having spent so much on research & development.
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