SanDisk claims that the G3 models are more than 5 times faster than the fastest HDDs now on the market, and twice as fast as SSDs that shipped in 2008.
$500!?
SSDs just piss me off.. Yea they save power, no moving parts, more reliable and so on but it's just sooo expensive for just a little bit of space!
I just wish their prices would fall down some stairs...
So its about 2$ a gig?(1TB drive would be....2G? *dies*)
With 1 TB going for 80-120$ on the low end its about a tenth of the price.
If drive makers want to do something about the cost of RMAs for their units investing in this while sharply bringing the price down would be more of a an advantage than a debt...,when the price halves.......twice......LOL
While it is new technology (and, as such is expensive) I would be willing to pick up a 240GB if the price was $250.
Yes, even $250 is expensive compared to regular laptop HDDs.
However, considering the greater battery life, less heat and now (extremely) better performance vs regular HDDs it would be a great deal in my opinion.
Peace
Originally posted by Pop_Smith:Even more so looking at fast enterprise class drives that's 300-500$ for 200-500GB 0-o
While it is new technology (and, as such is expensive) I would be willing to pick up a 240GB if the price was $250.
Yes, even $250 is expensive compared to regular laptop HDDs.
However, considering the greater battery life, less heat and now (extremely) better performance vs regular HDDs it would be a great deal in my opinion.
Peace
Size requirements are much less for an SSD. There is no need for TB drives just yet. A 250GB SSD would be overkill for most notebooks. My notebook gets along just fine with just 80GB.
You extend storage with cheap external drives.
I'm glad to see these prices fall and would love to be able to afford a small SSD for my notebook. I wouldn't be looking for the most massive one, just one big enough to hold my programs and OS.
Originally posted by ThePastor:WEll we are more talking aobut when the price is about quadruple of normal hard drive tech is at half the size.
Size requirements are much less for an SSD. There is no need for TB drives just yet. A 250GB SSD would be overkill for most notebooks. My notebook gets along just fine with just 80GB.
You extend storage with cheap external drives.
I'm glad to see these prices fall and would love to be able to afford a small SSD for my notebook. I wouldn't be looking for the most massive one, just one big enough to hold my programs and OS.
I prefer their USB disks instead i am not sure about their hard drives but if its based on similar to same technology as the usb's then i would be a consumer if the products
Originally posted by borhan9:
I prefer their USB disks instead i am not sure about their hard drives but if its based on similar to same technology as the usb's then i would be a consumer if the products
These drives substantially improve system performance. Especially when paging memory and accessing small files. Boot up almost instantly. Dramatically improves performance when doing virtualization.
As demand increases, price will come down. It has already, and it will continue to do so.
For the price whiners here, bear in mind that pressure from solid state drives is the reason that we have such big drives and the low prices for same. The mechanical hard disk industry is trying to buy precious time with bigger-faster-cheaper, but they are dead in the long run.
Originally posted by ericg8:Ya but the write limit limits its life span even if the parts can last longer than a normal HD it still have write limits on its chips that makes it not the best for day to day OS use..
These drives substantially improve system performance. Especially when paging memory and accessing small files. Boot up almost instantly. Dramatically improves performance when doing virtualization.
As demand increases, price will come down. It has already, and it will continue to do so.
For the price whiners here, bear in mind that pressure from solid state drives is the reason that we have such big drives and the low prices for same. The mechanical hard disk industry is trying to buy precious time with bigger-faster-cheaper, but they are dead in the long run.
Being an old fogy, is this new math?
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SanDisk claims that the G3 models are more than 5 times faster than the fastest HDDs now on the market, and twice as fast as SSDs that shipped in 2008.
Mez
Well new math is to blame for younlings not being able to count...and the EDU system for them not being able to think/talk...but I am regressing here :P
Anyway I believe the new tech they have for it allows for much faster data rates, I wonder if the write limit is enhanced any?
The write limit is still prevalent SDD tech.
Still in 5-10 years we might see a real mag drive HD disc alternative in both speed/price and true longevity.
Hey, Zippy, I was just telling someone the other day about reading about a new HD technology. That was when they were playing around with multi-layer HD technology. This was in the spring or summer and they claimed they would be selling HDs of almost a gig by the end of the year. I thought they were full of sh1t! 500 meg drives cost a few grand at that time. Gig drives came out in the fall. By the end of the year they were selling bigger ones. That was only 7-10 years ago. I mark time by remembering where I read the article.
I also remember laughing with a few hundred others in the early 80s when the speaker claimed personal computers would have 1 meg of memory in them by 1990.
I don't laugh anymore.
Originally posted by Mez:I will laugh at nano tech, the "blanket" computer is still 100 years away, the wireless central computer system that runs or networks out wirelessly or even wired that has parallel data transmission at speeds so that all devices have equal access to it that's a good 50+ off, the wireless desk that powers keyboard,mouse,speakers,printer and possibly the monitor with no wires but for the base of the desk should show up in 20-50 years we have the wireless energy tech(thank you Tessla may you rest in piece now) some things we have that can be attained in 10-30 some need a true innovation that will take 50+ for us to figure out..
Hey, Zippy, I was just telling someone the other day about reading about a new HD technology. That was when they were playing around with multi-layer HD technology. This was in the spring or summer and they claimed they would be selling HDs of almost a gig by the end of the year. I thought they were full of sh1t! 500 meg drives cost a few grand at that time. Gig drives came out in the fall. By the end of the year they were selling bigger ones. That was only 7-10 years ago. I mark time by remembering where I read the article.
I also remember laughing with a few hundred others in the early 80s when the speaker claimed personal computers would have 1 meg of memory in them by 1990.
I don't laugh anymore.
DP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep, the history of storage on the computer has been an interesting one.
I remember just the other day, paying $250 for a 300MB <--- (that's MEGA byte) drive aand being the guy on the block with the "biggest HD"!!!
I remember backing movies up to CD... getting tired of that and switching to DVD... getting tired of that and finally settling on an external 750GB drive.. I'm sure I'll "get tired of that" in a few years and I'll be looking at multi-TERRAbyte drives for under a hundred bucks...
Will it ever end???
Originally posted by ThePastor:When we hit the limtis of HD tech and disc tech, but that will be awhile with 100GB disc tech in the labs and god knows how large single drive HD tech has gotten in the albs.
Yep, the history of storage on the computer has been an interesting one.
I remember just the other day, paying $250 for a 300MB <--- (that's MEGA byte) drive aand being the guy on the block with the "biggest HD"!!!
I remember backing movies up to CD... getting tired of that and switching to DVD... getting tired of that and finally settling on an external 750GB drive.. I'm sure I'll "get tired of that" in a few years and I'll be looking at multi-TERRAbyte drives for under a hundred bucks...
Will it ever end???
No I am convinced it will never end. When we all laughed that PCs would have a meg of RAM by 1990 we had hit "the wall". The wave lenght of visible light was the limit or was that the CPU transistor limit? It does not matter the group was well informed and at that moment there was no way to make RAM more compact. I do remember when the wall was broken the RAM did not double one chip was the equivelent of 8. The memory in a PC did not stop or even slow down as we all expected. The curve stopped becomming a straight line. We all had the impossible meg of RAM years before 1990. Someone will always figure out a way to get around limitations.