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- Peko, on 03/14/2009, -1/+66FTA: 1.2 TB card, "The current offerings are priced at 'well under $30 per usable GB' "
Whoa, hold on a sec there bub. I must have left my $36000 in my other wallet. - Allstarn08, on 03/14/2009, -1/+30The secret to technology isn't creating it, but being able to mass produce it cheaply.
- inactive, on 03/14/2009, -1/+22After you've spent $600k on Oracle or $1M for a small SAP implementation, spending $36k to make the whole system run 2x faster is a no-brainer. In the enterprise market $36k is peanuts. FusionIO will sell truckloads of these.
- inactive, on 03/14/2009, -1/+15It'll only be about two-three years until these are $150 a pop. :)
Technological evolution makes my wallet happy. - dafragsta, on 03/14/2009, -1/+11Sure. Just as soon as you find RAM modules that will fit on a PCI-E card enough to add up to 1.2TB.
- mrsteveman1, on 03/14/2009, -1/+9What?
- maverickapollo, on 03/14/2009, -0/+8A little harsh there.
- TVarmy, on 03/14/2009, -0/+8Gotta put the horse in front of the cart, though. You can rarely mass produce something that's never existed before.
- mrsteveman1, on 03/14/2009, -0/+8After an hour i still don't know what the hell you're talking about. What's an unusable gigabyte and why are you paying for them? LOL
- Yarkz, on 03/14/2009, -0/+7One day SATA will be outdated because of this, but not until production is optimized, and prices lowered.
- inactive, on 03/14/2009, -0/+7Really, really, really hard if you want the data to be reliably persisted in the event of a system failure.
- mrsteveman1, on 03/14/2009, -1/+8Persistence that doesn't require a battery?
- Marshalrusty, on 03/14/2009, -0/+7suntzusputnik, what? Peko quoted exactly what it says.
I agree, that's not a reasonable price for this to be a viable storage solution. - TVarmy, on 03/14/2009, -0/+7And just a few years ago, that price would get us excited if they were talking about SD cards...
- Zervaman, on 03/14/2009, -1/+8I'm really happy that SSD tech is rapidly approaching what I would call "acceptable" price-per-gb levels. But it's obviously not there yet, especially considering how much you can get a 1 TB hard drive for.
On that note, where the hell are my OLED monitors? - rolf, on 03/14/2009, -2/+8For that price, you may as well build some type of battery backed-up Ram Drive. It would be faster too. Something like this (but updated since its rather old and scaled up):
http://www.pcconnection.com/IPA/Shop/Product/Detai ...
For someone that knows, what is the advantage of this? - b33b3s, on 03/15/2009, -1/+6As a computer engineer, I find this offensive
- bobbknight, on 03/15/2009, -0/+5The secret to technology isn't creating it, but getting some sucker to buy it.
- merky1, on 03/14/2009, -0/+5expensive to the average user, but if you factor in SAN fabric costs and array costs, enterprise customers might bite into this. Once Moore's law starts to kick in, these will start becoming standard server options.
- NidStyles, on 03/14/2009, -0/+4The consumer 80GB version is supposed to be out around the begining of Q2 '09. Starting at around 999 USD. If they are bootable like they've been promising I will be waiting in line to buy one. Not for simple fact that I've been saving since they were announced 6 months ago, but because I'm tired of the harddrive being the weak link in my systems. Running a Quad core at 4.2Ghz, and a 4 SSD RAID ) setup is nice, but I want that extra slot taken up by something other than a RAID card, and leave the SATA for storage.
- Shadic, on 03/14/2009, -0/+4He has uTorrent!
- ImperialSoren, on 03/14/2009, -0/+4about 20TB of DRAM
- bilbus, on 03/14/2009, -0/+4When compared to a 100k+ SAN, this is dirt cheap.
- sleepyness, on 03/14/2009, -3/+6Meh, check out the RamSan-5000!
http://www.superssd.com/products/ramsan-5000.htm - jimi1337, on 03/14/2009, -0/+3I was just pointing out that, judging by the length of the connector on that card, it looks like x4.
- Redlobo, on 03/14/2009, -1/+4I like the HyperDrive 5 because it looks like a bit more affordable at $399. Its pure RAM. Anybody wanna spot me some money?
http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/ - LeviTheSmith, on 03/14/2009, -3/+6I can
- jasdf, on 03/14/2009, -0/+3The only problem is looking at the state of the art once the future arrives.
- linagee, on 03/14/2009, -0/+3I'll wait till they're $30/card.
- IFEice, on 03/14/2009, -1/+4YAY one more thing I can't afford.
- inactive, on 03/14/2009, -0/+2it will need to be x8 or preferably x16
x4 cant cut it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bandwi ... - 0ceanic, on 03/14/2009, -1/+3but can i boot an operating system from it?
- linagee, on 03/14/2009, -1/+3How hard is it to really slap some RAM on a card with a PCI-express controller? I challenge an EE student to do so and not charge such insane prices.
- vuke69, on 03/14/2009, -0/+2Agreed, for $30/GB you can get a decent midrange FC SAN, and for $3-4/GB you can get a mid-high end IP SAN.
If they can't get at least close to the $10-15/GB range for the über versions, I don't see anyone getting all that interested besides some very specific(small) markets.
I will say, it's pretty damn cool though. - inactive, on 03/14/2009, -1/+3in 4 years ul have it in your phone.
- carbonfilament, on 03/14/2009, -0/+2I wonder if that's what google stores the internet on...
- Evilblobs, on 03/14/2009, -1/+3SSD has been 'takin over the market' for well over a decade.
- jimi1337, on 03/14/2009, -0/+2Actually, it appears to be a PCI express (x4?) card, not a useless collection of 'just raw chips'. However, at the price they will be asking, it might as well be.
- momedefome, on 03/14/2009, -0/+2Damn!!!!!!!!!!
- Langford, on 03/14/2009, -2/+4*wipes drool away* If only it wasn't so expensive.
- gn0stik, on 03/14/2009, -0/+2THIS bit of sales propaganda is both cheaper and FASTER....
http://i.gizmodo.com/5166798/24-solid-state-drives ...
Having said that, It makes much more sense to do a huge SSD based FCRA.
Which pretty much went without saying. Unless you are a sucker like DutchGuilder.
This is pure, unadulterated Dumb. The tech is cool, but this thing needs to be WAY cheaper before it will ever be adopted.
@midtown. Then why use 30 at all? If it's well under that just means it's between 20 and 30. Otherwise, he's be saying well under 20. Or even 10. The thirty number is NOT arbitrary. - phosphor112, on 03/14/2009, -1/+3That is a ridiculous price. Anyway, I hope these things come out sooner and at a more cost efficient way. My CS professor was discussing about how the fastest ram is over 1 million times faster than 10000rpm HDD. An SDD would be of great advantage to gamers other folks who use very high end demanding programs.
- rakeshishere, on 03/14/2009, -1/+3Still way too expensive
- zbeast, on 03/14/2009, -0/+2Give me a call when flash write speeds are faster and when I can buy a card like this for $1000.00 not $30,000.
- midtown, on 03/14/2009, -0/+2You clearly don't understand "well under".
- mrsteveman1, on 03/14/2009, -1/+3Yea, the RAM route is stupid. You put a few of those Intel X-25 drives in a raid array and you'll get plenty of speed, especially if you use something like ZFS to stripe writes across all drives.
- inactive, on 03/14/2009, -1/+3hehe and its just chips, so you will have that at home in a couple of years. and do this.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5166798/24-solid-state-drives ...
but for a couple hundred bucks (well. 1000 for the pretty white apple one) - joe1985, on 03/18/2009, -0/+2Way too expensive. I am ready for SSD to go prime time! Give me something I can buy.
- XeroXenith, on 03/14/2009, -0/+2No, it won't. The Cell processor doesn't support x86.
- carbonfilament, on 03/14/2009, -1/+2don't hold your breath. with the global economy what it is I don't think the big players are going to step up the r&d to make an über expensive device cheap enough to market for a while.
...sadly. Saw the (6?) Sony screen again the other day. Its so pretty! -
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