Samsung 256GB SSD, world's fastest?

[udaman]

Prototype currently, we'll see if they actually have it in production before 2009.

Spanks all HDD now and in the future, but will it cost less than current 128GB SLC drives, which are still very expensive, cost more than any 15k rpm HDD?

With a sequential read speed of 200 MB/s and sequential write speed of 160 MB/s, Samsung's new SSD is claimed to be about 2.4 times faster than a typical HDD.

http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/9401.html

(well timwit is at home, so it's ok to have pix of skinny young Asian thangs, right ? )

 

[LunarMist]

Yeah, sure, it will be out RSN. :dunno:

Meanwhile, where is the 500GB Sprinpoint M6?

What is up with the unpleasant-looking woman awkwardly holding the flash drive and the horrid background? They are distracting and take focus from the device.

 

[paugie]

Spoken like a photographer.

Wait! You ARE a photographer!

Maybe photographers are wordsmiths, too. 'Cause I could imagine Tannin using the words "unpleasant-looking", "awkwardly" and "horrid" in a sentence.

I would agree with 2 out of three. She's asian so not unpleasant-looking to me. Of course, I'd say that.

But the little finger should have been with the other three on the top edge of the drive. And they could have removed the background altogether.

 

[LunarMist]

OK, that was poorly worded as a result of an edit. Of course the woman was not holding the horrid background. The point is that the advert sucks on a couple of levels. Maybe they sourced the job to the lowest bidder.

 

[LunarMist]

I would agree with 2 out of three. She's asian so not unpleasant-looking to me. Of course, I'd say that.

Well some women are attractive models and some aren't, asian or not.


Oh man, I could tell a story about the consequences of using the word horrid in a photographic situation.

 

[udaman]

Well some women are attractive models and some aren't, asian or not.


Oh man, I could tell a story about the consequences of using the word horrid in a photographic situation.

Well I see Samsung/Korean old-school sexist commercialism works well in the modern world . I didn't think she looked all that great, but she's not wearing as much makeup as some, looks better than the one on the right in the Samsung laser printer announcement (too bad they are not available for you now LM, CLP-315k looks like it might be just what you were looking for).

But you're getting side-tracked by sexist marketing .

Fact is that this new drive is promising on two fronts. It's using the less expensive, higher density MLC tech that supposedly has same lifespan as SLC & it's faster than any 15k rpm drive out there. Server market (higher-end) peeps will love these. MLC SSD's typically cost 1/2 what their SLC counter parts cost. While 1/2 of a current SLC 256GB SSD is still way too expensive, pace of advancements being made suggest that by the end of next year we should see 512GB versions of these, perhaps even less costly once smaller process 40nm or less come to production.

If you can afford $5k Canon bodies, and more in lenses; you can afford 512GB SSD's that move data 2x-3x faster than *any* HDD, laptop or deskstop can do. now all the Nikon & Canon pro bodies need are SATAII I/O ports, FW3200, USB3.0.

 

[LunarMist]

I'd be happy to buy a 32GB version of that flash drive today for $1000, but it does not yet exist. Hard drives are fine for larger capacities. Now I have over 20TB of HDs - not exactly affordable in flash drives.

 

[timwhit]

I'd be happy to buy a 32GB version of that flash drive today for $1000, but it does not yet exist. Hard drives are fine for larger capacities. Now I have over 20TB of HDs - not exactly affordable in flash drives.

The Memoright GT line is the closest you can get right now. The 32GB incidentally costs right around $1000.

 

[LunarMist]

Do you mean this one? I don't know about the DVNation.com.

 

[ddrueding]

DVNation has been around a long time. When I first started looking at SSDs, they were the only game in town. I have never purchased anything from them, (I bought from rocketdisk.com) but they are a long-standing player.

 

[LunarMist]

So is this the exact same drive for less money, or is it a slower one?

 

[ddrueding]

So is this the exact same drive for less money, or is it a slower one?

I did a search on the model number listed, and got this. Seems to be the same model #.