16GB SSD RiDATA MSRP $170
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16GB SSD RiDATA MSRP $170
This looks promising! Hopefully a small but competitive market will develop for SSD drives. There are a ton of computers that could still easily run on 16GB.
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5645
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5645
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I'm more interested in seeing the price of this 128GB unit
http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36841
when it comes out. (And its read/write speed, of course.)
http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36841
when it comes out. (And its read/write speed, of course.)
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Maybe I just don't understand the basics of this, but aren't these just fancy USB flash drives underneath? They're using the same NAND based technology that we find in our flash drives today, and many people know that flash drives have a limited number of read/writes.
Will SSD drives be limited to a finite number of read/writes? From my experience, exisiting hard drive technology (when built properly) has the potential for a longer working lifetime than a USB flash drive.
Will SSD drives be limited to a finite number of read/writes? From my experience, exisiting hard drive technology (when built properly) has the potential for a longer working lifetime than a USB flash drive.
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Hard drives in my experience, someteims have depressingly short lives.
The correct solution IMO is not to trust the media. Even at the layer of only a track going bad or a few bits in the SSD, we need filesystems that account for this.
Solaris ZFS seems to be one of the first with the idea of checksums when data is read, so you catch problems on the media as they happen. Hopefully this idea will percolate into other OS and filesystems as well. You just can't trust storage media, it's amazing we have worked this way for so long.
The correct solution IMO is not to trust the media. Even at the layer of only a track going bad or a few bits in the SSD, we need filesystems that account for this.
Solaris ZFS seems to be one of the first with the idea of checksums when data is read, so you catch problems on the media as they happen. Hopefully this idea will percolate into other OS and filesystems as well. You just can't trust storage media, it's amazing we have worked this way for so long.
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Yes, but with proper wear-leveling (part of the drives firmware) and disabling of the Window swap file they will last a really long time (years and years).Nick Geraedts wrote:Will SSD drives be limited to a finite number of read/writes? From my experience, exisiting hard drive technology (when built properly) has the potential for a longer working lifetime than a USB flash drive.
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Re: 16GB SSD RiDATA MSRP $170
Transcend makes 2, 4, and 8GB models already, but the pricing isn't very good. My HTPC could run from the 4GB or 8GB models. However the 2.5" Toshiba 4200RPM HD in it now isn't the noisiest part so there's no point replacing it for solid state. The Zalman VF900 @5V seems to be the noisiest part.pipperoni wrote:This looks promising! Hopefully a small but competitive market will develop for SSD drives. There are a ton of computers that could still easily run on 16GB.
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5645