Samsung Solid State Harddrives???

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Greg Gebhardt · #1 Post by **Greg Gebhardt** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:05 am

In 16gb flavors 1.8" factor:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23425

Woild these be usable in the X41?

mrdeucie · #2 Post by **mrdeucie** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:28 am

Would be interesting to have these in the X41 but it seems that the drive sizes are a bit on the small side for the 1.8" drives.

emorphien · #3 Post by **emorphien** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 5:41 pm

bhtooefr · #4 Post by **bhtooefr** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 6:19 pm

Pure flash drives would be for those who $$$ is not a factor for, FWIW.

LearningThinking · #5 Post by **LearningThinking** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:36 pm

My speculation is that HD will still have higher data density than Flash drive for several years.

DavidNZ · #6 Post by **DavidNZ** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:24 pm

plus, are they going to be able to overcome the limitations in read/write on flash drives?

Greg Gebhardt · #7 Post by **Greg Gebhardt** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:35 pm

emorphien wrote:$$$?

Lookie emorphien

All people and their wallets are not equal.

If everyone thought like you, we would all be running 8088s with 64k ram.

#8 Post by **K. Eng** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:56 pm

Well, I think for most people, Flash based HDDs are still a ways off. But the iPod nano (2GB and 4GB Flash) is a sign of things to come. At a certain point, Flash will start to reach price parity with HDDs, and the rest will be history.

I for one welcome the day where I do not have to worry about mechanical parts failure in my notebook computer

Aroc · #9 Post by **Aroc** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:45 am

Are they fast, like RAM drives? Or slow like flash memory?

bhtooefr · #10 Post by **bhtooefr** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:53 am

Well, they're flash memory

FWIW, M-Systems has some SSDs (basically, SCSI and ATA flash disks) that hit 40MB/s sustained... not too shabby for Flash...

Aroc · #11 Post by **Aroc** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:50 am

Oh. I was hoping for something faster than the fastest mechanical S-ATA and 15k SCSI drives.

#12 Post by **K. Eng** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:55 pm

I'm not sure how fast flash is compared to HDD. Some people claim it is slower, and there are lingering concerns because flash wears out after so many reads/writes.

sugo · #13 Post by **sugo** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:13 pm

Samsung claims 50+ Megabytes read speed right? If that's the case performance does not seem to be a concern.

Limited rewrite cycle, however, is a big concern for Windows XP. Wouldn't the way page file is used in XP kill a flash drive very fast?

emorphien · #14 Post by **emorphien** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:43 pm

Greg Gebhardt wrote:
emorphien wrote:$$$?
Lookie emorphien

All people and their wallets are not equal.

If everyone thought like you, we would all be running 8088s with 64k ram.

Lookie greg, stop making assumptions. You know the old saying.

I'm curious how well these hold up to constant rewriting. How many cycles before the gate breaks down (or however its designed). Haven't read it to tell.

sugo wrote:Limited rewrite cycle, however, is a big concern for Windows XP. Wouldn't the way page file is used in XP kill a flash drive very fast?

seems you beat me to the question i just asked :0

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