Pulsar

[LunarMist]

Is the Seagate Pulsar a bit late to the 240MB/sec and SATA 2.0 class, or were they just waiting for more capacity?

 

[Stereodude]

Exactly how many other enterprise SSD's are out there?

 

[LunarMist]

At least one. The X25-E was a year ago already.

 

[udaman]

Is the Seagate Pulsar a bit late to the 240MB/sec and SATA 2.0 class, or were they just waiting for more capacity?

No, 200GB is not exceeding the competition, just matching...yawn.

Exactly how many other enterprise SSD's are out there?

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Got blinders on much?

At least one. The X25-E was a year ago already.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Got blinders on much?

http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd.html

^I'll bet U've seen this link b4?

Editor's comments:- the remarkable thing about Seagate's 1st SSD is that it took the company so many years to enter the market. Technically - it's unremarkable.

Will it succeed in the market? In my view it would be unrealistic to assume that Seagate's long running dominance in the hard disk market will translate to dominance in SSDs too - because nearly all its potential oem customers have already been evaluating or using SSDs from other sources for upto 4 years.

 

[Stereodude]

Can anyone give me a good reason why I shouldn't put you on ignore?

 

[LunarMist]

Are you stating there is another enterprise drive besides the X25-E or that that is an inappropriate answer?

 

[sechs]

So, who really makes this drive?

 

[Fushigi]

Exactly how many other enterprise SSD's are out there?

IBM's had one since April. 70GB in either 3.5 or 2.5 form, although from what I've read the drive internally has 120 or 128GB to enhance durability/wear leveling. Search the announcement for SSD. Details are thin but the price, as with any IBM Enterprise hardware, is not. They list for about $10K each, which will sound like a lot, but workloads tend to be transaction-heavy v. capacity-driven so you could replace 30+ spinning disks (+ RAID cards and the chassis' to hold them) with just 4 or 8 SSDs and the end result could be less expensive. Certainly cheaper to operate with way less heat/power.

Of course, if you need the raw capacity then stick with platters. Over the weekend we replaced 36 70GB disks with 282GB disks in one partition. After RAID5 it went from 2.1 to 8.4TB usable.

 

[time]

Can anyone give me a good reason why I shouldn't put you on ignore?

Because in this case anyway, he speaks the truth. Enterprise-level SSDs have been around for years. They've just been frighteningly expensive.

 

[Stereodude]

Because in this case anyway, he speaks the truth. Enterprise-level SSDs have been around for years. They've just been frighteningly expensive.

I think you're giving his comments far too much credit. He apparently thinks all SSD's are "enterprise" grade, hence his comments.

 

[Bozo]

I already have him on ignore.