128gb Ssd Sata

I want one . the battery life would be amazing because there is no moving parts and it's gonna be very fast:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/26/a-data-exposes-128gb-ssd-to-the-camera/

 

.. that's the future right there.

 

Yeah, here is a video of SSD vs conventional HD's shutdown/boot up speed:

http://video.i4u.com/ces.php?url=ces/hdd-vs-ssd.wmv&p=3

I rather have one of these than a faster CPU.

 

I wonder how long lasting flash memory is. Flash is supposed to have a fixed number of cycles, but so far it doesn't seem to be a problem for USB keys. The load on a flash HDD would be a lot higher though since virus scanning and other background processes are constantly reading and writing. Hopefully they'll be able to last at least 3 years and be able to report when it's about to fail.

Anyways, I've gotten my MBP with a 160GB perpendicular hard drive so I'm satisfied for now, but I'm interested in this 32GB SSD HDD that fits into an Express Card.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36841

It seems like the ideal solution for expansion and portability. They'd probably be a good backup method too since you can just swap them out, but they'd probably be very expensive though.

 

According to Aaron:

Aaron @ Jan 26th 2007 9:27AM

Gil, as an FYI, these flash drives have a fixed number of writes (1 million +) and unlimited reads. So, even if you ran out of writes your data won't be corrupted, you just can't write to that part of the drive anymore. Your OS would just mark it as bad sectors. Data retention is 10 years so these are FAR safer than your standard mechanical HD. On top of that, 1 million write cycles? If you wrote 1000 times a day (to the same locations on a HD) that's over 3 years. The only time I could you see coming close to that would be if you were using the SSD for swap space.

 

Wow thats amazing I did not realize they were that much faster (though they were comparing it to a 1.8" 4200RPM drive) One thing I did notice though is that you probably should not have swap space or else you will use up the read wrights very quickly. I wonder how the speed compares to a 5400RPM or 7200RPM drive.

EDIT: I just noticed that the A-Data drive is a 2.5" form factor, so it should fit in a standard Notebook HDD bay right?

 

Yes it's a 2.5" SATA for laptop. and it's UATA 5000 compare to conventional SATA 150 or UATA100.

 

Honestly, that boot time did not seem fast at all, it took 33s(can't tell when desktop is fully loaded because of the autorun software they have) till you see Vista's desktop and my current S96J with WD 160GB does it faster, even shutdown was nothing impressive either, it looks just as fast as my laptop. But I'm sure once they are released, they will be better tuned and faster but they should actually compare it to a faster drive/laptop than that crappy Dell. Hell, my 4yr old Toshiba 1.4GHz Celeron w/ 4200rpm drive booted and shutdown Vista faster than that,

 

If those are $150 or under (which i doubt) i will get one.

But that is awesome.

 

Try - $1000.... There is NO way these are any less than 4-5x the cost of a traditional 120-160gb 2.5" SATA.... like I said, my guess is no lower than $700, but $1000 wouldn't be out of the question.

The big thing at CES this year for UMPC's was the option that Samsung was making to go to an SSD drive in their Q1 ($1000 - compete's with Asus' R1h).... well to go from a 60gb tradition 1.8" hard drive to the 32gb SSD 1.8" doubled the price to $2,000...... It's not cheap, but it's a boatload more secure against drops, quieter, and a ton faster..... Flash memory has never been cheap.

 

I have been wondering when SSD would come into the consumer market... we are long overdue in terms of HDD evolution. Platter-based drives been around for 20 years now. Hopefully other manufacturers will start producing SSDs and bring the costs down in the next few years.

 

Yeah, you're right in a few years these will probably be "standard" on most systems and with that sort of production the costs will probably get down to about where traditional notebook drives were just a few years ago.... Mind you, even a 100gb/7200rpm 2.5" drive has come down from close to $300 to $150 in only the last year........ notebook hard drives are honestly peanuts right now....