16GB NAND FLASH SSD drive now available to consumers!

[Anonymous]

Storageforum.net is great. I won't ever spam again.

Storageforum.net is great. I won't ever spam again.

Storageforum.net is great. I won't ever spam again.

Storageforum.net is great. I won't ever spam again.

 

[Sol]

O.K... So a 16GB Laptop HDD for the same price as a really nice laptop with an 80-100GB standard drive... For 40 minutes of extra battery life I don't see people exactly falling over each other for this one...

At this price flash memory is still arround 250x the cost/GB of standard hard drives... It will have to come down a lot more than that and have a solution for the 2,000,000 write cycle problem before it becomes a practical replacement for a hard drive.

 

[LunarMist]

Can I have eggs with that spam?

 

[Sol]

It brings up one of those unanswerable questions.
Is unsolicited advertising which fails to make a product sound good still spam?

 

[LiamC]

* 8MB read / 6MB write speeds fast enough for HD, audio / photo / video editing
* approx $124 per GB

At one fifth the speed of a conventional drive. Fast enough? By whose definition?

 

[LunarMist]

It brings up one of those unanswerable questions.
Is unsolicited advertising which fails to make a product sound good still spam?

:mrgrn:

At one fifth the speed of a conventional drive. Fast enough? By whose definition?

Wow that is a horribly slow drive! A CF card can read at >20 MB/sec. reads and write almost as fast. Maybe the flash drives are useful for industrial/scientific purposes, but I doubt many consumers are standing in line to buy one. I wonder how fast Windows XP boots on flash compared to the 7K100?

 

[Tea]

Any chance you could join our Folding @ Home team, Eguy? I'm sure you'd get along just great with some of the other new contributors to the Folding team