First Mtron SSD's available on Ebay...

title says it all!

http://cgi.ebay.com/World-Fastest-F...ryZ64459QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Dave

 

That's for the 3.5" (desktop) drive. The seller also has the 2.5" version for notebook users.
http://cgi.ebay.com/World-Fastest-F...4118186QQihZ007QQcategoryZ64459QQcmdZViewItem

Nice find! I wish I can afford one

 

Yes, nice to see a seller with a variety of these beauties! They are beautiful! Dave

 

lol, its nice to see SSD drives being release. but honestly, what kind of consumers do they think they will profit from with price tags of 1000 dollars for a mere 32gb with only about 18gb free storage for notebooks. and does it seriously cost them 500+ dollars just to make a 32 gb because manufacturers really double the price of what the actual unit cost to make.

 

Do you remember when a 5 MEGABYTE hard drive was a thousand dollars or so? Yes, it is true. So, the same thing will happen with these. Besides, there are MILLIONS of consumers out there to whom this is chicken scratch. I hope to be one of them sometime. Maybe if I can show my clients how much more faster and RELIABLE these are and how much more their data would be protected and sell THEM a bunch then I can make enough $$$ to buy a few for me Dave

 

Also, one MUST factor in the research and development as well as manufacturing. Factories do not build themsleves. Dave

 

Pretty pointless to get one for a desktop since desktop drives are already very fast if you get the right kind, also desktops dont have the power/heat issues a notebook has or even the shock factor (as in physical shock like dropping it)

So that auction is pointless for somebody with more money than sense.

A notebook version while still overpriced atleast has some warranting qualities.

 

SSDs could be good for servers though, I think.
- ultra-fast access time
- good read speeds
- much lower failure rate than hard drives
- write speeds/limited writes aren't a big issue since most servers don't write to the disk too much
- servers do have more power and heat concerns than typical desktops

But yeah, for a typical desktop... not really worth it.

 

Size will be increasing, and price will be dropping no matter what any of us think or do. Dave

 

Some of its true but I have never seen a server with heat issues, and most of what you just said is why they made RAID.

 

All servers have heat issues. They also have FAN issues to take care of the heat issues Dave

 

I thought I heard several places mention that SSD's are terrible for servers. I think it has to do with the fact that they're not as good as conventional hard drives when it comes to sequential I/O. I'd still think that since they're great at random I/O, though, that they'd still be a benefit to the server market - once cost and storage capacities are improved, that is.

A lot of discussions have come up also about the "limited write cycles". I think this is more recently becoming a non-issue. Older drives with lesser algorithms write to the same area of the disc more often. For flash drives I guess this is a problem. Thankfully, there's been a lot of discussion about the recent developments in the flash drive controllers which use better algorithms to distribute the data more effectively over the drive.

My thoughts...maybe they're correct, maybe I'm reading the wrong information. I only posted because I'm pretty sure it's correct.

 

Alot of these questions arose when i first did the ssd/hd comparison mainly because of the low scoring of the Sandisk SSD. Having spoken to companies that use these in critical situations at the enterprise level, it appears these questions arent even worth the consideration, at least from the level in which they utilize them.

 

Servers are huge though, cant they just stick an air conditioning unit in there n its all gd? lol