Flash hdds to Zepto?

Yah, I read some news a while ago, where they said that they now made 2,5" SATA Flash hdds on 129GB. Tough they arnt in production yet (prolly late 2008 or early 2009) they have wake massive interest, both for Speed (10x read-speed compared to 5200rmp and 5x write-speed) and energy consumption. Tough the reliability isnt really that tested yet, nor lifetime, its hard to tell if they will be so called megasuccessors . So the question is, have Zepto gotten any info bout this yet, you are after all mostly developing gaming lappys, and you have problems with battery life

the only downside is with the hdds that theyr much more expencive atm. But as the market is going right now, they will be the same price as the normal hdds between 2010 and 2015.

Just curious

btw, If you could combine this option with a second hdd, it would be perfect

 

I'm not convinced whether the potential speed gain is as much as you think. Storage access has two components: Access time (time to find the data) and transfer rate. If the performance of Turbo Memory is used as an indicator, the access time is very good - typically 1 millisecond compared to 12 to 18 ms for a physical disc. However, data transfer rates may not be significantly better than the current generation of hard discs, as shown by the attached graph. The real gain will be for the random access of small amounts of data, which is the area where technologies such as ReadyBoost are trying to speed up performance.

I suspect that physical discs will keep going for a while yet. I wouldn't be surprised to see 500GB in 2.5" HDDs by the end of next year and solid state storage will still be several times more expensive. The next generation of hybrid HDDs (including a few GB of solid state storage) may well prove to be a good compromise.

John

 

They said that the they got a average transfer rate of about 50mb/sec compared to 20-30mb/sec for 5200 2,5" hdds

 

My 250GB WD2500BEVS has a transfer rate ranging between about 55MB/s and 30MB/s with an average of 44MB/s. That level of performance is also achieved by the 160GB single platter HDDs which are now arriving. Flash storage scores on the near-instantantaneous access times.

John

 

I don't know much about the speed of the things, but as I see it they will have a huge advantage when it comes to battery time? Something we'd all like to be better, no matter what laptop you own. Isn't the HDD a real power-hog?

 

This is so wierd, I tried to find the news, but it seems like it has vanished, like wtf? Tried to google it, finding it on my news-feeders eg.

 

The performance of SSDs from different manufactures varies greatly today. In the “consumer” segment (as in consumers with deep pockets) I have been looking at Samsung, Sandisk and Mtron. After reading several reviews it seemed that the Samsung and Sandisk SSDs were approximately equal (Samsung having better write performance despite the lower specified write performance than Sandisk and Sandisk having better read performance than Samsung).

However, Mtron’s SSDs seemed to be approximately two to three times as fast as the Samsung/Sandisk SSDs.

Imagine my joy when I discovered that Zepto offers MTRON SSDs as an option on their high-end systems for the Swedish market. So today I ordered a Zepto 6324W equipped with an MTRON SSD!

 

now wait a second, are we talking about the same hdd? Im not talking about a combi-hhd, with both normal and a small flash module, Im talking about a full-flash hdd with 129GB of memory. This hdd is not availible for the market yet, planned to be 2008-2009

 

sprint Captain hero is simply talking about the 32Gb (or has the 64Gb one been realeased?) SSD that zepto already is selling

 

, didnt know that