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- rupric, on 08/29/2008, -0/+60Chop Chop Big Blue... My downloaded movie collection isn't getting any smaller and I'd sleep better knowing it's on a SSD hard drive.
- handheldchimp, on 08/30/2008, -0/+45I imagine it would be close to 4 terabytes (lose space when formatting).
- Topher06, on 08/29/2008, -0/+40so when did commercial SSD technology get skipped over? It seemed to have gone from non-existent to obscene enterprise technology overnight leaving us poor home consumers chugging away with antiquated HDD technology.
I just want at least 100gb of SSD that runs much faster then SATA or SCSI speeds for near instantaneous data access, and keep it under $300. is that too much to ask for? - mikesbaker, on 08/30/2008, -0/+31oh crap i need a towel now
- Zalyster, on 08/30/2008, -0/+30solid state drive hard drive?
- inactive, on 08/30/2008, -3/+24Imagine how much porn would fit on that!
- youannoyme, on 08/30/2008, -0/+20uh. Home markets always get the hand-me-downs of technological advances. It's *exactly* these enterprise needs that drive technology, and later what has been developed will be changed to a form usable/affordable by a normal joe shmoe
- TrentDeux, on 08/30/2008, -3/+21I hope this collection is 100% legally purchased and G-rated.
- mynameistux, on 08/30/2008, -2/+18I don't
- inactive, on 08/30/2008, -5/+20Read the ***** article
- dizzy113, on 08/30/2008, -0/+15Probably the same as a 4 TB 7200 RPM drive, just a guess...I'm not an expert though.
- jessecrouch, on 08/30/2008, -0/+15This is **NOT** a 4TB drive, people! It's a drive ***array*** made up of a bunch of 32GB SSDs.
Burried as inaccurate! - hufman, on 08/30/2008, -1/+15No, SSD won't lose bits over time and randomly stop spinning like a harddrive might. However, after enough years of heavy (writing) use, parts of the SSD will lose the ability to change. They will not lose their data, they just can't be changed. A movie collection does not have enough writes to even worry about the write limit of flash-based memory.
- dizzy113, on 08/30/2008, -1/+14Well I remember having a 40 MB (yes megabyte) hard drive like 20 years ago and thinking it was cool, so soon enough this will be the standard and cheap.
- TrentDeux, on 08/30/2008, -0/+13The standard industry metric is '000 climaxes.
- hillkiwi, on 08/30/2008, -0/+12Gates: "I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time."
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1997/01/148 ... - baldduck, on 08/30/2008, -1/+12yes.
- inactive, on 08/30/2008, -0/+11assuming every movie is equivalent quality to a 2hr-long 700MB DivX/XviD DVD-rip with no resolution loss, its 11,428 hours.
If you watched a 2hr movie every saturday and sunday night, and never changed your schedule, you could go for nearly 56 years assuming the only type of file on this drive was a 700MB 2-hr DivX/XviD DVD-rip. - NiGHTSChao, on 08/30/2008, -0/+8Wouldn't that just suck if you had some hardware/massive failure and had to format everything T_____T
- Patori, on 08/30/2008, -0/+7Wikipedia's english HTML dump compressed is 14GB.
- RMoore08, on 08/30/2008, -1/+8It was 640 not 200.
- inactive, on 08/30/2008, -1/+7And it doesn't even come close to recording everything we know about a single subject. Or even a sub-sub-subtopic of a subject.
- Yggdrasil03, on 08/30/2008, -1/+7Buried as inaccurate, it is an array of 120 SSD's, each drive about 315 gigs. No 4 terabyte drive SSD yet.
- santaliqueur, on 08/30/2008, -0/+6You don't lose space when formatting. You must be new to computers.
Hard drives store data in binary, and manufacturers advertise storage space in decimal. The decimal "equivalent" is larger, which is why you "lose" space. - wazzledoozle2, on 08/30/2008, -0/+6no, each about 32 gigs. 3800/120 = 31.67
So im assuming it's 120 32gb drives. - wazzledoozle2, on 08/30/2008, -2/+8This is an array of 120 individual 32gb drives. Buried as inaccurate.
Right now im running a 640gb twin platter WD magnetic drive. Flash isn't increasing it's capacity quickly enough to ever surpass magnetic. - inactive, on 08/30/2008, -4/+9than
- inactive, on 08/30/2008, -0/+5Depends on porn length and quality (of the video)
- ImperialSoren, on 08/30/2008, -1/+6because of the razor thin profit margins in the ram industry? contrarian
- catfish182, on 08/30/2008, -0/+5excuse me its taco bell.
- GeneralFailure0, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4About four terabytes worth.
- guyincognitoo, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4Right now there is about 893 TB on usenet. And most of it is porn.
http://www.binsearch.info/groupinfo.php - h0ser, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4an array, not a single drive. Man this title gave me high hopes.
- Ebulating, on 08/30/2008, -1/+5There is no such thing as a 4tb hard drive.
- Enlyth, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome
- Evilblobs, on 08/30/2008, -1/+4Stop working at McDonalds.
- Zalyster, on 08/30/2008, -1/+4(reply)
- inactive, on 08/30/2008, -0/+3I thought terabyte was a Transformer.
- wazzledoozle2, on 08/30/2008, -1/+4Wayyyyyyy more. The cheapest 32gb SSD is $150 @ newegg right now, and IBM definitely not using ultra-cheap consumer drives. Even @ $150 a drive it would be $18,000, not including the raid hardware.
- tnoy, on 08/30/2008, -0/+3Its an array of 120 Fusion-io SSDs, the total for the 4.1TB will easily be well into the six-figure range. I've previously read Fusion-IO's pricing was around $30/GB, so that would be just $123k before you add in IBM's costs. My guess would be in the $200k range.
As a comparison, a Ramsan-440 will run you around $140k, and only gives you something like 512GB of storage. (It uses Flash memory despite the name). - seandfeeney, on 08/30/2008, -1/+4They were but, there have been recent advances in reliability and lifetime of use. EMC just became the first company to put these to use in enterprise storage by adding it to the new DMX-4 Symmetrix. Which was a major breakthrough.
- badassninja, on 08/30/2008, -0/+3That's a year and 4 months on comcast. Comcast, that's craptasic.
- tnoy, on 08/30/2008, -0/+3Fusion-io's pricing is around $30/GB. It'll be over $120k for the drives alone.
- KibibyteBrain, on 08/30/2008, -0/+3There will always be speed limitations for the deeper levels of the memory hierarchy, by design. The more capacity you have means the more muxing basically you need to do to get to the data, and larger addressable block sizes. This is the whole point of the memory hierarchy to begin with from registers down, we assume that memory gets slower the more of it you have, so its best to have really small chunks down to the fundamental memory accessible by the data path of the CPU.
Of course, it will always be relative, and right now HDDs are pretty absurdly slow compared to everything else. However, save massively stripped storage devices in SSD(like massive raid0 arrays, some SSD devices already do this, but this is still not for storing anything), you won't ever see instantaneous speed for value oriented storage by design, at least, until standard storage capacities start to exceed need(not going to happen any time soon). Also, at some point, software starts to have a bigger impact again, like what file system you run, and application software's schemes for disk flushing/reading. - YodaJones, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2Actually 4 TB is not very much storage if you think about it. I am sure the typical American family has way more or at least 4 TB of data in the form of Video Tape/DVD collection(s), LP & CD music and family pictures/photo albums/family vacation video(s).
The other aspect that is never discussed is if you COULD and did purchase one of these 4 TB systems today you will need to purchase two because how else do you intend to backup your data? That's a LOT of Blu-Ray disks to burn dude. And Blu-Ray disks are not exactly cheap yet either.
What I also don't get is why these things are so slow to get on the market. And what they will cost. $1000? $2000? $5000? More?
I see it this way. AMD has produced a CPU with ONE BILLION transistors. How many transistors are in one TB of flash memory? Certainly not a billion. If you can buy the top of the line Quad Core Pentium or AMD CPU for under $1000 how do they justify the high cost for flash memory?
Something ain't right. - rapeandruin, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2ssd are ***** awesome...reformatted my 15gb drive in about 15 seconds...my 4gb in about 4...
- rollerboy, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2With prices how they are now this must cost like $10,000.
- toetagger, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2First it was Intel?
- YoctoYotta, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2Man, I hate to break your spirits, 1but that joke sucked.
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