Members Music Calgary Posted October 7, 2008 Members Share Posted October 7, 2008 http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-i-got-one-of-new-intel-ssds.html http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080908-intel-tosses-hat-into-ssd-ring-with-80gb-launch.html Such an awesome time to be alive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted October 7, 2008 Members Share Posted October 7, 2008 Interesting. Thanks. I've been hoping that these would come along and eventually become the "standard" for a while now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Music Calgary Posted October 7, 2008 Author Members Share Posted October 7, 2008 I've been hoping that these would come along and eventually become the "standard" for a while now. You and me both. Totally silent operation -- perfect for studio applications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted October 7, 2008 Members Share Posted October 7, 2008 And ideally, less mechanical breakdowns/failures, (hopefully) faster seek time, more reliable, and longer lasting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members slight-return Posted October 7, 2008 Members Share Posted October 7, 2008 And ideally, less mechanical breakdowns/failures, (hopefully) faster seek time, more reliable, and longer lasting. I'm going to have to call plagiarism on ya there - I'm sure I read that in an erectile dysfunction med advert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Music Calgary Posted October 7, 2008 Author Members Share Posted October 7, 2008 I'm going to have to call plagiarism on ya there - I'm sure I read that in an erectile dysfunction med advert HAW! Faster seek time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members slight-return Posted October 7, 2008 Members Share Posted October 7, 2008 c'mon baby, I know it's the men's room at Taco Bell, but willie's awake and he just HAS TO have some sugar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted October 7, 2008 Members Share Posted October 7, 2008 HAW! Faster seek time... Are they slower or the same? I really don't know about the seek time. I was hoping (note thet word "hoping" ) that since it was solid, it wouldn't have to spin around and around to find the data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted October 7, 2008 Members Share Posted October 7, 2008 I'm going to have to call plagiarism on ya there - I'm sure I read that in an erectile dysfunction med advert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members spokenward Posted October 7, 2008 Members Share Posted October 7, 2008 The "reads" on these are stunning: (Linus says it - I believe it - etc...) from your link: So what's so special about that Intel SSD, you ask? Sure, it gets up to 250MB/s reads and 70MB/s writes, but fancy disk arrays can certainly do as well or better. Why am I not gushing about soem nice NAS box? I didn't even put the thing into a laptop, after all, it's actually in Tove's Mac Mini (running Linux, in case anybody was confused , so a RAID NAS box would certainly have been a lot bigger and probably have more features. For the "writes" you may still want a RAID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Super 8 Posted October 7, 2008 Members Share Posted October 7, 2008 http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-i-got-one-of-new-intel-ssds.htmlhttp://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080908-intel-tosses-hat-into-ssd-ring-with-80gb-launch.html Such an awesome time to be alive... Cost-per-gigabyte right now is about $3.60. It's gonna be a while before I'll be buying one of those. But no doubt it will be cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted October 7, 2008 Members Share Posted October 7, 2008 You guys reminded me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_memory I wondered a while back when this would reach fruition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Music Calgary Posted October 7, 2008 Author Members Share Posted October 7, 2008 Are they slower or the same? I really don't know about the seek time. I was quoting the joke, but if I'm not misreading Linus (very credible guy) says for random seeks the Intel SSDs are faster -- though some other SSDs are not. You know how that goes. As stated above it's way too expensive to be practical just yet anyhow -- but for a market utterly desperate to get people buying into the next big thing perhaps SSDs will get a nice bump. I hope. Personally I can hardly wait to buy one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators MrKnobs Posted October 7, 2008 Moderators Share Posted October 7, 2008 What about the life cycle problem? I thought current flash memory has a pretty bad mean writes to failure thing going on.... Terry D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members spokenward Posted October 7, 2008 Members Share Posted October 7, 2008 What about the life cycle problem? I thought current flash memory has a pretty bad mean writes to failure thing going on.... Terry D. This link speculates on the math: http://techreport.com/articles.x/15433 If you don't want to crunch through the math, Intel estimates that the 80GB X25-M will last for five years with "much greater than" 100GB of write-erase per day. That's a relatively long time for much more data than most folks are likely to write or erase on a daily basis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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