What is Digg?Sponsored by newegg
Missed out on the best electronic deals last Black Friday? view!
newegg.com - Newegg.com's Cyber Monday Promotion has you covered. No Lines, No Crowds; Just Click and Save.
15 Comments
- dtele, on 10/14/2009, -0/+9Quietly?
- TMFinept, on 10/14/2009, -0/+6Have they done any work on their crummy controllers or should we wait for the Indilinx or Intel product?
- GordonV, on 10/15/2009, -0/+4Agreed!!!
Samsung should take FusionIO's concept of "removing the SATA controller." the SATA controller adds 7 clicks to the standard 10 click process to communicate data.
FusionIO's PCI-e "controller less hard drive" uses 3 clicks to communicate data. The drawback? Not bootable. <= (
Here's some video on FusionIO's "controller less" device:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=fusionIO
--------------
And yes, I did Kanye Samsung. - CrikeyMike, on 10/14/2009, -0/+4Did my next laptop just get a lot speedier? Sounds smart. Now it'll be Google's next play to get Chrome OS stored on the mini SSDs as an alternative OS lite... who wants to wager?
- pr0t3st, on 10/15/2009, -0/+3I love you Samsung /fan
- RaulMuadDib, on 10/15/2009, -0/+3Shhh.. they're testing.
- djhash, on 10/15/2009, -0/+3Wow, you are the only one who caught on to their error.
You are right. They should've said similar to Mini PCIe. Its the same connector but the hardware (controller) behind it is different.
"The new standard takes up the same space in a system and the same physical connector as Mini PCI Express, though with different technology behind the hardware, said Knut Grimsrud, chairman of SATA-IO and Intel's director of storage architecture. Mini PCI Express cards are about the size of a standard business card."
Read this article..
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138317/Net ... - MonkeyFit, on 10/15/2009, -0/+3Well I was under the impression PCIe was PCI-Express, which has been available in computers for a few years now. Yet the article says it hasn't been that way.
"The mSATA drive uses a PCIe slot that does not currently exist in today's desktops, laptops and netbooks. So hardware makers would need to modify their products to include a PCIe slot." - inactive, on 10/15/2009, -0/+2Motherboards for laptops should come with SSD drives standard for OS install to get maximum battery time and have regular hard drives (until SSDs get cheaper) for media and such.
- ampdj89, on 10/17/2009, -0/+2Awesome! now get them cheaper.
- dabestdefense, on 10/16/2009, -0/+1Looks like a mini PCIe card to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#PCI_Expre ...
But why use a PCIe slot that does not exist in current notebooks, when Express Card is capable of PCIe mode? - RTFMA, on 10/15/2009, -0/+1Glad to see them getting into this market. That is the same interface some netbooks currently use (My Asus Eee PC 901, after BIOS upgrade, included). The only one I was able to find several months ago was an off brand, but the size and speed were still an upgrade over the cheap ones (admittedly, this is out of necessity) used by Asus. I can't wait to see how high Samsung can raise the bar.
- Lucas123, on 10/14/2009, -0/+1Well, they're not talking a lot about it because they're not sure whether the OEMs will be willing to modify their hardware for it. Probably not the best term to use.
- krisrm, on 10/15/2009, -4/+3You don't belong here...
- MonkeyFit, on 10/15/2009, -5/+4So wait, what the hell is PCIe?
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is