I can remember around 15 years or so ago, personal computers actually did use external passive power bricks, and it was one of the biggest complaints of users. They hated the external power adapter, and couldnt understand why they couldnt just build it into the case. So thats what they did. You hav...

i find it amusing that the acronym "SSD" stands for "Solid State DRIVE" and you have already admited these are not drives, but modules used with proprietary connections in a multi bay raid enclosure. No. All the time I called the complete RamSan-500 SSD. Also, proprietary is only used to keep third...

They say "flash modules" rather than "flash drives" for a reason. User manual: "The RamSan-500 comes with 9 flash modules in a RAID 5 configuration. (...) The flash modules are designed and manufactured by Texas Memory Systems. They incorporate proprietary technology to interface with the RamSan-50...

That is not an SSD drive, its a multi-drive array enclosure. Nope, it's a SSD drive. It's flash modules are not independent drives, all drive logic is in the enclosure part. Read the discription: "The Flash Memory (1-2TB usable capacity) is arrayed in nine RAID-3 protected hot swappable modules." I...

Aris wrote:

m^2 wrote:

Vicotnik wrote: I have never heard anything about a fan in a SSD before. Is there such a SSD?

Here's a sample.

That is not an SSD drive, its a multi-drive array enclosure.

Nope, it's a SSD drive. It's flash modules are not independent drives, all drive logic is in the enclosure part.

Can anyone confirm or deny what m^2 just said? I've never heard this before. Go into Seagate / Samsung / Hitachi / WD site and download specifications of a laptop drive, a consumer HDD and an enterprise SAS drive. Compare BER (can also be called nonrecoverable error rate or alike). You'll find that...

Yeah, I found the fastest SSD can't even be connected by SATA since it's rated at 700mb/sec! Instead, it's made on a PCI-Express card, since that's the only PC connection capable of moving the data at full speed. Fusion IO card - 80/160/320 GB I'm surprised that there hasn't been more mention of th...

As previously mentioned, it does look like the heat "somehow" needs to get off the fins, liquid metal or no liquid metal. So it may not be as effective as even full watercooling much less a TEC or similar. I'm hoping to be wrong however... But even if it's "almost" as good as proper watercooling wi...

robin wrote:found some tests finally =)

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showth ... st12913297

Thanks.

Also, laptop hard drives have high bit error ratio. 10 times bigger than consumer 3.5" HDDs, 100 times bigger than enterprise drives.
EDITED.

echn111 wrote:Anyone find any reviews of this thing? It sounds interesting, but would like to know if it actually delivers.

I'm pretty sure there's nothing yet.
NordicHardware got a sample and is going to review it soon.

Vicotnik wrote:

Meowbay wrote:How noisy are these Intel SSD's ?
I read somewhere some SSD's have small fans on-board. I find it really strange that while we're in "Silent Storage" forum, nobody even mentions this..

I have never heard anything about a fan in a SSD before. Is there such a SSD?

Here's a sample.

The metal in the pipes is NaK.
Source.

claims like 75% more efficient and 4 times faster are blatant half-truths and manipulations of data. (4x faster than Atom, what 6.4Ghz?). Frequency matters only with very similar CPU architectures, which is not the case. Atom is very slow for a 1.6 Ghz CPU, it can be easily 4 times faster @2.53 Ghz...

Now I will just recommend not using True Crypt for the most valuable data as it's only gonna keep amateurs away. You have a thing against TrueCrypt? :P I was under the impression that it was quite secure. What would be the professional choice then, PGP Disk? I don't know, I have only some theory ba...

...And then a single bit error kills all your sensitive data. That's why we have backups. And from the TrueCrypt FAQ: Q: What will happen when a part of a TrueCrypt volume becomes corrupted? A: In encrypted data, one corrupted bit usually corrupts the whole ciphertext block in which it occurred. Th...

Vicotnik wrote:Best to never keep sensitive data unencrypted on any drive I suppose. TrueCrypt ftw.

...And then a single bit error kills all your sensitive data.

if anything, a proper server needs fully buffered ECC RAM, no? NO NO NO NO NO NO NO Let me say it again NNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Fully Buffered DIMMs eat tons of power and provide no additional benefit for customers. DDR-2 DIMMs are ~4W each FBD's are ~10W each. Do NOT go down that path, especially if...

http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4540/specs.xml 48 drives, 2 quads, up to 32 GB RAM, max measured power - 1200W. doesn't the amount of drives require a certain amount of 12V rails? it always seems like that from the various snippets i've read. seems like nowadays PSUs can support a hell of a lot mor...

If you want something big... http://www.servercase.com/miva/miva?/Merchant2/merchant.mv+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SC&Product_Code=GHS-2000&Category_Code=Adv+Server 38 Drives with 7 5-in-3 and one 3-in-2. :twisted: that one and the 18 5.25" bay lian-li PC-343B are pretty awesome. that servercase one mi...

If you want something big...
http://www.servercase.com/miva/miva?/Me ... Adv+Server
38 Drives with 7 5-in-3 and one 3-in-2.

The most drives that you can sandwich into the Stacker 810 is 14 - three 4-in-3 modules, and then another two on top of that. If you can live without the power button, you can add 4th drive module. With 5-in-3 modules you get 20 drives. I remember seeing such Stacker, got no idea where it was thoug...

Bar81 wrote:The velociraptor is probably the way to go in the meantime.

It depends. 32 GB SSDs are not that much more expensive than 76 GB VR. If you move random writes to another drive, they perform great.
So unless you need a lot of capacity - they are a good choice for a high end machine.

Agree, it's not a good review. No random read / write tests? These are the most interesting about flash! And Sandra shows that NCQ is enabled. :lol: For several years I have been interested in (I've been considering) the possibility of using solid state storage. More lately, since I've become intere...

Sounds like it needs a lot of juice and may generate lots of heat as well. Flash drives do not produce much heat at all. Looking at that heatsink, something obviously takes a bit of power. (Probably the controller). Actually I have been wondering about the power consumption question for flash drive...

So a 1.6GHz CPU to 1.75GHz Very Happy Super PI 1M test is can make in 1min and 33 sec, witch is against the VIA C3 I using as fanless machine very very good, because 1 200MHz C3 Nehemiah need for 1M Super PI test 8min 28sec... What's the point of comparing it to a 2001 processor? Only easily availa...

So a 1.6GHz CPU to 1.75GHz Very Happy Super PI 1M test is can make in 1min and 33 sec, witch is against the VIA C3 I using as fanless machine very very good, because 1 200MHz C3 Nehemiah need for 1M Super PI test 8min 28sec...

What's the point of comparing it to a 2001 processor?

You could have used a USB flash drive instead AND could have installed Windows if you wanted to (linux is better anyway). :lol: I'm not critical of this setup, just wanted to know. Good point - I didn't consider a USB flash drive. I'm not sure whether it would be as fast though. I don't need Window...

More:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/sho ... p?t=193615

same article also claims that this MLC will have similar reliability to SLC and you will see a 1.8" version by end of the year. I think it's because of very high capacity. MLC cells are said to have 10 times lower number of writes, but drive lifetime scales linearly with capacity. If they reduced 1...