Samsung Samples 50nm 16Samsung inches closer to making SSDs more mainstream
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timwhit
Hairy Aussie
I wonder which would be faster. That flash drive you linked claims:
IDE Interface: Typ. 8MB/s in PIO Mode 4; Max 12MB/s in PIO Mode 4;
Seems kinda slow considering how big it is. It would take a long time to fill it up.
I don't know what the NAND would do for performance...hopefully a lot faster if the want to use it for SSD.
IDE Interface: Typ. 8MB/s in PIO Mode 4; Max 12MB/s in PIO Mode 4;
Seems kinda slow considering how big it is. It would take a long time to fill it up.
I don't know what the NAND would do for performance...hopefully a lot faster if the want to use it for SSD.
ddrueding
Fixture
I'd take this over that....faster with an easier interface, provided your board supports boot-to-USB
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
You mean the 16GB version.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
I don't know how safe I would feel booting off of a USB thumbdrive for an extended period of time.
Do thumbdrives use algorithms to vary where data is written so that the drive does not die an untimely death?
Do thumbdrives use algorithms to vary where data is written so that the drive does not die an untimely death?
Bah, we ned some of them higher pseed flash disks. are teh luitlle bugers 32-bits wide inside or what? Anyway I;d kill one too fast in the excessivge wreads and writes. DEo ytou realy think it will stand up to 50 years of use like a 15K cheetah written throughout?
ddrueding
Fixture
16GB? Excellent. And the speed looks OK as well.
ddrueding
Fixture
To be honest, the speed sucks...but it's better than this. Why?
The Ultra II 8GB card is known to be slow compared to smaller Ultra II cards. Use the Extreme III (20 MB/sec.) or Extreme IV (40 MB/sec.) where faster download speeds are desired.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
SanDisk just introduced a 32GB capacity, 62MBps transfer rate, 1.8 inches SSD.
http://www.sandisk.com/Corporate/PressRoom/PressReleases/PressRelease.aspx?ID=3654
600U$ though.
http://www.sandisk.com/Corporate/PressRoom/PressReleases/PressRelease.aspx?ID=3654
600U$ though.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
I wonder when it will become available to normal people? I think I would pay up to $250-300 for that drive. $600 is pretty steep.
ddrueding
Fixture
$600 is not bad. That is cheaper than an iRAM of half it's capacity. Of course, it would be great if they would sell it for less 
My recent domestic spree has siphoned all the money from my tech fund, but I suspect that this drive or something similar is in my near future.
My recent domestic spree has siphoned all the money from my tech fund, but I suspect that this drive or something similar is in my near future.They can indeed -- its called wear leveling, and it can be implemented by either a controler embedded in the device or at the file system level (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_levelling).
dd wrote: (the Corsair's) "speed sucks...but it's better than this. Why?"
I would speculate that the Corsair contains a controller with a bit of embedded SRAM and is implementing some cached reads & writes
Fushigi
Storage Is My Life
Samsung going for a 64GB SSD in 2Q07. Now that's a viable notebook replacement drive. Adequate capacity and more than adequate STR. Too bad it doesn't mention seek times.
ddrueding
Fixture
Seek times for even a slow SSD are in the ns range, right? not the ms range?
Fushigi
Storage Is My Life
They should be. I'm going to guess drive interface overhead may raise the seek time to as high as 0.1ms or thereabouts. Which begs the question .. would such a drive include or benefit from onboard cache?
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
A cache might be good for extending the life of the drive.