Samsung's Solid State Disk

[scuzzy]

Samsung leads the way: Silent Flash-chip Drive Replaces HDD

[Carskick]

I knew this would happen eventually. I'm glad it is finally catching on, as our traditional hard drives are very archaic. How nice would a laptop be whose only moving parts were fans and the DVD drive? The speed and electrival efficiencies merely are icing.

However, at $500, One could buy 4 200GB hard drives. Even a 15k or 20k RPM SCSI drive would be a better deal, and just as fast, if not faster, but would consume more electricity.

[saoirse]

The technology behind the idea isn't new.  Cenatek have been producing these for a while, but with limited capacity (4 GB) running on the PCI bus.

Even a 15k or 20k RPM SCSI drive would be a better deal, and just as fast, if not faster, but would consume more electricity

Access times for these SSDs are far shorter than that of an SCSI drive.  Cenatek quotes just 0.6?s.  It'll be interesting to see the read/write data rate of the higher capacity Samsung discs.

[Bill]

I'd like to see this technology applied to desktops.  Not as inexpensive as conventional but faster, and quieter.
Not everyone needs huge capacity.


Bill

[Neon]

I'd like to see this technology applied to desktops.  Not as inexpensive as conventional but faster, and quieter.
Not everyone needs huge capacity.


Bill

RAM Disks have been available for some time. They are mundo expensive compared to disk drives. Note that disk drives have increased in capacity (if not reliability) a lot in the past decade. It's hard to beat them for capacity/price.

Gigabyte iRAM

[Carskick]

Access times for these SSDs are far shorter than that of an SCSI drive.  Cenatek quotes just 0.6?s.  It'll be interesting to see the read/write data rate of the higher capacity Samsung discs.

Yes, access times will definitely be better, but the transfer rate may still be as good or better on the SCSI drives. Fragmentation will be much less important on a flash block, as shown here.