Sandisk PATA SSD's

[udaman]

I see SD & Toshiba are sharing facilities, but using different means to an end?

http://www.physorg.com/news150477991.html

SanDisk’s Gen 2 pSSD drives, slated to be available in February, 2009, are built using the company’s reliable 43-nanometer Multi-Level Cell (MLC) flash memory. This technology is produced at fabrication plants in Yokkaichi, Japan, where SanDisk and its partner, Toshiba Corporation, share the output.
The technology on which the Second Generation Modular SSDs are based also utilizes SanDisk’s innovative patented All Bit Line (ABL) architecture with advanced proprietary programming algorithms and multi-level data storage management schemes to yield MLC NAND flash memory chips that don’t sacrifice performance or reliability.
Provided by Sandisk

Truly hilarious, Sandisk has the tumerity to think they can establish their own marketing standards like M$....pullease.

http://driveyourlaptop.com/products/sandisk-ssd-g3-

[2] vRPM (virtual Revolutions Per Minute) – SanDisk’s newly introduced industry metric to evaluate the performance of SSDs vs. hard disk drives (HDDs) and other SSDs. vRPM answers the question how fast would a HDD have to spin in order to deliver the same performance as a SSD drive in a client PC. vRPM = 50 / ((0.5 / 4kB random read IOPS) + 0.5 / 4kB random write IOPS)).
[3] LDE (Long-term Data Endurance) – a new industry metric, recently introduced by SanDisk, that quantifies how much data can be written to an SSD in its lifespan expressed in terabytes written (TBW). Data is written using typical PC transfer size pareto, written at a constant rate over the life of the SSD and data is retained for at least 1 year upon LDE exhaustion. Based on SanDisk internal measurements, as typical client PC user writes 4GB/day.

vRPM, LMAO!

Well at least, unlike Toshiba's, you can get these in PATA interface for older notebook computers. Funny how the performance seems like it's less than Toshiba's 512GB SDD?

The SanDisk® G3 SSD: Revitalizing Existing Laptops:

Now there's a great way to extend the life of two to three year old business laptop computers, simply by replacing their hard disk drives (HDDs) with SanDisk's G3 2.5’’ PATA SSDs

...in capacities of up to 240GB, highest PATA SDD's yet?

anticipated sequential performance of 200MB/s read and 140MB/s write

huh? they don't even know yet?

ExtremeFFSTM, a new SSD algorithm, allows random write performance to potentially improve by as much as 100 times over conventional algorithm

^^^marketing PR BS alert!



In other CES random news:

CES '09: Asus' 512GB SSD Laptop; World First
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-ssd-laptop,6771.html

Bet this will not include the Toshiba (least not the one announced) 512GB SDD.

Although we were excited, we had to ask Asus the price point of the S121. According to Asus, the new unit will be priced at $1649.

Not sure where they got the price either, it's just a demo model, not in production @present.

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20090108/ausu-s121-notebook-(ces).jpg
The just-announced 12-inch Asus S121 is "not" technically a Netbook but uses an Atom processor and a massive 512GB solid-state drive--the largest yet in any device


I sure am glad I don't buy leading edge tech. In 6 mo. or so, you get a new arch CPU, faster Quadro GPU, less expensive slightly faster DDR3 mem, and you can replace both the IBM SSD's & raptor with one single Toshiba 512GB SDD.


http://silverado.cc/shop/product.php?productid=1081&cat=0&page=1

^^^Bet in 6 mo you can put together off the shelf parts and have a slightly better system for 1/2 the price of this $20k monster (4k res monitor not included )...but hey, it boots in 15 seconds (why so slow ?, shouldn't it be instantaneous? )...maybe they should have used the X25-E?:

HDD vs SSD in the MacBook Pro 2.8GHz
http://www.barefeats.com/mbpp08.html


SanDisk already looking beyond flash memory
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-9999520-64.html

"developing the 3D read/write memory that we believe will replace NAND flash sometime in the next decade when it can no longer be economically scaled."

...very end of the next decade?

Isn't that what was supposed to happen to HDD's a decade ago?

 

[udaman]

Y SD even bothers? Too little(size & performance), too late, too expensive

http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/02/23/sandisk.g3.helps.ssds.go.mainstream/

 

[Mercutio]

The plural of SSD is SSDs.
The possessive form of SSD is SSD's.

Apostrophes aren't that difficult, people.

 

[Handruin]

Here is a fantastic apostrophe reference.

 

[Mercutio]

Actually, here's a fantastic reference to all sorts of writing.

 

[Chewy509]

anticipated sequential performance of 200MB/s read and 140MB/s write

But isn't the IDE bus limited to 100MB/s or 133MB/s depending on your chipset? The above might be fine for Ultra320 SCSI, but IDE? What are they thinking (or smoking)?

 

[Mercutio]

Why are you talking about IDE SSDs? This thread is about English grammar!

 

[jtr1962]

But isn't the IDE bus limited to 100MB/s or 133MB/s depending on your chipset? The above might be fine for Ultra320 SCSI, but IDE? What are they thinking (or smoking)?

I'm wondering about that myself. I though PATA was dead for all intents and purposes.

 

[Stereodude]

If the price was right and the drive didn't suffer from Jmicron-esqe stuttering I might be interested in a PATA SSD.

 

[LunarMist]

I'm wondering about that myself. I though PATA was dead for all intents and purposes.

A decent PATA SSD can breathe new life into old computers, especially notebooks.