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- BlackJackJester, on 02/28/2009, -0/+57Summary : The Samsung drive is a little slower than the Intel one, but is very power efficient, and has a comparable price, with 3x the storage space.
- Zamboni33, on 02/28/2009, -2/+56"if writing a large amount of data to the drive, say 20GB a day, our 256 SSD would last over 100 years."
makes passing pron from generation to generation much easier - larryjr88, on 02/28/2009, -4/+55The abolition of archaic spinning disk drives is closer and closer.
Yay for SSD - Claverhouse, on 03/01/2009, -1/+45Deathbed scene:
The strong old man, wasted but still virile in spirit, raises his withered hand commandingly and beckons to his eldest son as the crowd of women and lawyers weep uncontrollably, covering their faces with aprons and handkerchiefs. The sturdy son dutifully kneels beside the white sheets, waiting for his father's hand in benediction.
"No time for that, my boy," the rasping voice cracked, "John, go to that coffer and withdraw the great ivory box." The troubled man took the tiny golden key and with difficulty carried the box to his waiting father, then gasped as he unlocked the lid and saw...
"Yes," croaked the dying man, "that is the great 100 Terrabyte SSD drive bought by my great-grandfather. He partially-filled it with the finest porn money could then buy; as did his son, and his son, and as did I. You now have trust of this great treasure that has made our family what it is: use it wisely and add to it's store; share the contents with all, yet never let it leave your possession. And now, if it pleases you, take the blessing of an old, tired man."
Reverently, he knelt again, and the elder's left hand rested upon his temple in benediction, then lay limp as the death-rattle shivered all who hearkened, and the other hand ceased that frantic non-stop jig beneath the coverlet. - roxgod666, on 02/28/2009, -0/+25I'm hoping usb 3.0 comes out before my next computer.
- Rileyluck, on 02/28/2009, -2/+26i want one so badly but they are so damn expensive :-(
- enkideridu, on 05/15/2009, -1/+24added to the list of thing i want but can't afford
- Nouman6, on 02/28/2009, -2/+21I knew SSD's were getting cheaper, but I had no idea they were above 200gb :o
- inactive, on 02/28/2009, -2/+16500GB SSD next year FTW!
By next January I hope to build a new system that will finally replace my trusty XP box. It will be a combination of Windows 7 and the large SSD drive - hopefully it will be a 500GB drive. - jasdf, on 02/28/2009, -2/+16I am waiting for Windows 7 and SSDs to mature before I build my next computer. I'm hoping for sometime around November.
- Jones82, on 03/01/2009, -1/+14You should do this for every article
- Aleman360, on 02/28/2009, -2/+12What's up with their test results? The read speed is slower than the Intel, yet the random access time seems orders of magnitude too high and the boot up times seem suspiciously fast...
- inv1ctus, on 03/01/2009, -0/+10You should be grateful a TECH article made it here instead of some of the other front page filth. I miss our old digg =(
- Ragzouken, on 03/01/2009, -2/+10They won't be as quiet though.
- oboshoe, on 03/01/2009, -0/+8I think that 3 is probably quite accurate for notebooks.
I'm thinking it'll be a bit longer for data center applications until capacities rise. - ileftfark, on 03/01/2009, -1/+9O_o
- oboshoe, on 03/01/2009, -0/+8In 10 years spinning drives will be obsolete.
- inactive, on 03/01/2009, -0/+8SSD for OS but HDD still rule for Backing up important files. Because if the SSD gets ***** you are *****. With HDD there is hope for recovery.
- paulc201, on 03/01/2009, -0/+7Wait a few months. The price will plummet as these become the standard.
- Ramble, on 03/01/2009, -1/+8Not really. RAID 0 isn't much of a performance increase (at a much higher risk) - to really get near SSDs you need RAID 5 - a good card could cost you £400 and hard disks at £50 a go, you're looking at £600.
- KMartSheriff, on 03/01/2009, -1/+8Ya know, Digg actually use to be a tech news site before it was filled with ***** articles, politics, pictures of cats/stupid *****.
- ileftfark, on 03/01/2009, -0/+6See Digg in 2005:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050106091107/http://w ...
Nary a mountain goat or huffpo in sight.
:'( - InorganicMatter, on 03/01/2009, -0/+6This review is made of FAIL. He used Windows XP, an antiquated operating system that was NEVER designed to take advantage of solid state disk features. Should have used Windows Vista with the SSD patches, Windows 7, or a Linux system with a very recent kernel.
- anexanhume, on 03/01/2009, -1/+7Poor article, especially the tables at the end. The random access time for the samsung and the boot time for the intel both seem wrong.
- xerigen, on 03/01/2009, -1/+6I would argue we need more of these kinds of articles.
- inactive, on 03/01/2009, -0/+5...a month or two? I barely make enough to cover rent and bills. Five hundred dollars would take me at least half a year of saving up my extra cash, which I usually tend to spend on food.
Glad to know the recession isn't affecting everyone just yet. Not so glad to be one of the people who it has affected. (less hours, less raises, higher rent, etc) - scuba7183, on 03/01/2009, -0/+5you win.
- terafunker, on 03/01/2009, -0/+5Touch of class
- KMartSheriff, on 03/01/2009, -0/+5I'm gonna say when A 600GB SSD is like around $100-200.
- benitojuarez, on 03/01/2009, -1/+6400 dollars is still 350 dollars too much for 256gb , ill stick with 1tb satas for 106 w tax.
- xCIone, on 04/15/2009, -4/+8nice!!
- Drakh, on 03/01/2009, -1/+5HDTach? that's it? That's not even a real-world benchmark -- it's as synthetic as synthetic gets, nor is it optimized in any degree for SSDs. And did the author specify which version of the test he even did? Short? Long? Full?
Shoot, he might as well have just dragged his iTunes library over to the drive and started his stopwatch--that's about as accurate as a single HDTach benchmark for judging performance between solid-state drives.
FYI: http://faq.storagereview.com/tiki-index.php?page=B ... - googooly, on 03/01/2009, -1/+5Newegg.com for $489
- dfross, on 03/01/2009, -0/+4Judging by the text in the article (page 2), which implies at least that the random access time is 0.1s, same as Intel's, I'd say that was a typo.
Certainly if it was 150 times slower than the Intel one, they would have mentioned that. - BCPneumatics, on 03/01/2009, -0/+4You have great enthusiasm.
- terafunker, on 03/01/2009, -0/+4Should allow for even thinner, more power-efficient, and quieter notebooks in the years to come. Not to mention more reliable thanks to fewer moving parts.
- ileftfark, on 03/01/2009, -1/+5A 256GB SSD Drive with read/write speeds comparable to a Velociraptor's *is* news.
- vincentweber, on 03/01/2009, -0/+3That's because the tester tested it on Windows XP which is stupid to say the least. Why? NTFS as not optimised for SSD's.
There's a lot of work on the Linux front (like BtrFS) that is designed to utilise the power of SSD's.
It don't know about Windows 7's file system. - j4rcher, on 03/01/2009, -0/+3I love you.
- 7aji, on 03/02/2009, -0/+3a tear just dropped of my eye.... and something else dropped from something else as well......
another tear of my other eye that is. - harinezumi, on 03/01/2009, -0/+3RAID5 does not increase speed over RAID0. It has the same reading speed as RAID5 and actually a slower writing speed than either RAID0 or a regular drive. The main benefit of RAID5 is redundancy.
Also, in real-world applications, the performance benefits of RAID setups are pretty negligible. 2nd generation SSDs (like the X25-M), on the other hand, improve the time it takes to run certain tasks by an order of magnitude. - inactive, on 03/01/2009, -0/+3stfu. 70's porn pwned. Big Bushes FTW.
- Evilblobs, on 03/01/2009, -0/+3I do enjoy my $100 1TB WD hard drive.
1.5TB is $130 now.
SSDs: inevitably taking over the market for two decades now. - j4rcher, on 03/01/2009, -0/+3Idk, it's pretty generic these days. Natural hair and shaved pussies.
- kenvsryu, on 03/01/2009, -0/+3Less digg more work.
- AngelBunny, on 03/01/2009, -0/+3When a 256GB SSD laptop drive drops below $200 I'm buying it for my laptop. :)
- petard, on 03/01/2009, -4/+7An SSD isn't extremely useful in a desktop. You can RAID a couple drives to get the same performance for cheaper and more storage.
- roxgod666, on 03/01/2009, -1/+4http://digg.com/microsoft/Microsoft_To_Start_Shipp ...
http://windows7news.com/2009/02/26/ray-chen-window ...
It should be ready by September, and even with a delay it would most likely ship before the holidays. - MuffinFlavored, on 03/01/2009, -1/+4And boot-up times are 4 times better with the Samsung drive?
- abrasion, on 03/01/2009, -0/+2"I put the drive up against Intel's X25-M SSD, which I consider the industry leader for SSDs"
Well then you're an idiot aren't you?
http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/15931
X25-E SSD is the industry leader by a long margin, this is the future of SSD's - MLC is going to die and SLC is going to dominate in the long run. -
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