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- inactive, on 01/09/2009, -0/+155I'd use it in my computer if I were you.
- Lucas123, on 01/08/2009, -0/+142Check out the "Related By Keyword" story: 120GB Laptop Hard Drive Coming (Made popular 3 years 264 days ago). How times change.
- j1ggy, on 01/09/2009, -2/+140That's the first time I've ever seen someone on Digg sign their comment.
- sjvn, on 01/08/2009, -14/+151Seriously, at this rate, I think hard drives are on their way to the junk yard to meet up with their old buddies: the floppy disk, the CD-drive, and tape drives of all types and descriptions.
Steven - inactive, on 01/09/2009, -0/+79I grow more and more convinced that SanDisk is magic.
- SuperJimmyJimbo, on 01/09/2009, -0/+77not the most effective way to compress your data...but it works.
- ashes0, on 01/09/2009, -7/+67Meanwhile I am sitting on a 1 TB HD that I got for 100$
- josepablos, on 01/08/2009, -6/+66HD is the past
SSD is the new *****! - sloonark, on 01/09/2009, -1/+51It's weird thinking that my next computer may not even have a HDD.
- AVigorVermin, on 01/09/2009, -4/+49never heard of pie?
- Rikkochet, on 01/09/2009, -1/+37They won't for much longer, and spinning platter drives will die out.
Tapes are still kept around only because they provide the best archival quality for the sheer amount of data that can be stored on a small tape.
Eventually everything electronic will contain no moving parts - it's been inevitable for ages, and we're getting damn close to being finished.
And then we can turn our attention to fans and cooling and making electronic circuits that run cold and eliminate the last moving part.
And then we win and everybody gets a flying car. - StriderNemesis, on 01/09/2009, -1/+37From the SanDisk press release:
"The G3 SSDs are more than five times faster than the fastest 7,200 RPM HDDs and more than twice as fast as SSDs shipping in 2008, clocking in at 40,000 vRPM1 and anticipated sequential performance of 200MB/s read and 140MB/s write3. The G3 SSDs provide a Longterm Data Endurance (LDE) of 160 terabytes written (TBW) for the 240GB version, sufficient for over 100 years of typical user usage. (2,3)"
Over 100 years of typical usage (writing 4GB per day, according to them)? Impressive. Even if it really were really 16 GB per day, 25 years would be pretty impressive. - GlassAgate, on 01/09/2009, -1/+35"We should place it between this pile of old coffee grounds and that pile
of America On-line floppy disks." - Blandyman, on 01/09/2009, -3/+35anthropodeus:
The point isn't to have a 60GB partition, ***** for brains. The point is to have a very fast drive holding that 60GB partition (which is more expensive per GB) and a seperate drive for storage of non-essentials (since it's a better price to GB ratio.) - moges, on 01/09/2009, -1/+33If you are serious about performance, you'll get a 60gb SSD for your main drive (C or /, depending on your platform) and then have a 1TB for storing your movies and large files. Your computer will run faster with the lower IO latency for programs and loading, and you'll still have the benefit of massive amount of storage.
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -1/+32I wouldn't call that exactly cheap, but it's getting there. I guess it's fairly cheap if you're comparing the performance side though.
- ThisURLNotFound, on 01/09/2009, -0/+30"Mediawhores" will use standard hard drive technology for the next few years or so to store their media and larger files. At the moment, SSD drives are mainly for your OS and application drive... not the storage drive.
- Innagadadavida, on 01/09/2009, -0/+30Digg has changed...
Sigh... - Fizban140, on 01/09/2009, -6/+34or, you are a retard. . .
- EVILTHETURTLE, on 01/09/2009, -3/+30"now they're hitting the 40,000 RPM mark"
lol wut? - str1fe, on 01/09/2009, -1/+27Maybe he meant speeds equivalent to a 40k RPM HDD?
- SniperZero, on 01/09/2009, -3/+28not bad once they hit 1TB at around 200-300$ mark i'll buy one :).. or we might be at like 3-4TB then.
- dhughes, on 01/09/2009, -0/+24He's anal about his data.
- knifesideleft, on 01/09/2009, -0/+24The Intel 25(something) is rated at over 1 million hours
The good thing is that even if you did wear it out its not like all your files are gone. You can still copy them to a new hard drive, you just cant write to it any longer. - isaactwito, on 01/09/2009, -1/+23Hey, does anyone know any jokes about how he said he was sitting on it? Maybe I'm just trying too hard to be funny on digg...
- meghalc, on 01/09/2009, -0/+21I still remember the day when my dad brought home the 286 with 10mb of hard disk space. :-)
- 64bit, on 01/09/2009, -0/+21I don't think they will be completely eliminated. They provide more storage for your dollar, so large data banks will probably stick with them, at least in the near future.
Still, I want one. - McGuinness, on 01/09/2009, -0/+21Uh, do you see the magic word here? Sequential. SSD's dont perform as well as their tests because hard drive access is very random. Expect a huge performance loss in real world conditions. This is why the Intel SSD that came out a few months ago still reigns supreme, its RANDOM access kicks the ass of every other SSD. I'd like to see this drives non-sequential performance.
- ChromaVita, on 01/09/2009, -1/+21Unless it's Ebola.
- cowsgonemadd3, on 01/09/2009, -4/+22I prefer something soft when I sit but everybody is different.
- asspants, on 01/09/2009, -2/+20I want to get in on this post signing bandwagon as well, where can I subscribe to your mailing lists, good sirs?
-Pants that go on your ass. - nickstang, on 01/09/2009, -0/+16The bottle neck in comptuers for years has been the Hard Drive. Finally,.. a new technology to replace hard drives in that last few decades. This is big.
- revolve, on 01/09/2009, -2/+18It's where you store all your porn.
- lurrker, on 01/09/2009, -3/+19SansDisk?
/Too Soon?
/s :) - rolf, on 01/09/2009, -0/+14Yes, you can trust it. Even with the write/erase cycles, once an area goes bad - it's still readable - just not writable.
So you can get your data off of it. An HDD goes broke, well, good luck. - ianferrell, on 01/09/2009, -0/+14Because it's solid state. Now, did you even read the title?
- WestonP, on 01/09/2009, -1/+14CD's and tape drives are far from dead, as they are still very much in use, and quite practical, for servers and mainframes.
I don't think it's any question that magnetic hard drives are on their way out though. The high capacity of magnetic drives these days is nice, but we've been living with not much real improvement in speed for quite a while now. - bluwshark, on 01/09/2009, -4/+17RPMs? I thought the point of SSD is that there are no moving parts.
- GalacticXenu, on 01/09/2009, -1/+13SanDisk makes some really good stuff. Their MP3 players are pretty much among the best out there, performance/feature-to-price wise. Sansa clip is probably the highest-quality "budget" mp3 player out there, and their Fuze, a direct competitor to the Ipod Nano, is superior in just about every aspect except screen size, resolution, and color capacity.
After using my Fuze I laugh at everyone I see with Ipod Nanos because they don't get FM tuners, an microSDHC card expansion card slot, and ogg and flac support. - PHJames88, on 01/09/2009, -0/+12I just bought 1TB for $100. You got ripped off.
- citrusfizz, on 01/09/2009, -0/+12they are much better than they were. the amount of writes/reads will surpass how long you own the drive now.. and that is really what matters.
i am a little curious from the second part of your post tho.. HDD are not eactly more reliable. hell i had one die when i my computer fell on its side.. the only thing i trust is my fileserver with 8 750GB seagates in a Raid 5 and a hot spare. - Defiant001, on 01/09/2009, -0/+12Are you kidding...
- JoeB4ever, on 01/09/2009, -3/+14That should keep your butt warm unlike the SSD.
- encrypteduser, on 01/09/2009, -2/+12Remember when the Seagate CEO told the media that they would never produce SSD because he thought the technology was hogwash and the prices would always be too high to be accepted as the norm? What now, *****!
- isntreal, on 01/09/2009, -3/+13They are supposed to last 'indefinitely' (for all practical purposes.) No moving parts.
- absurdist, on 01/09/2009, -1/+11I doubt anyone could dumb it that far down.
- inactive, on 01/09/2009, -0/+10Where can I buy one now? :)
- Blandyman, on 01/09/2009, -1/+10We're barely pulling off 250 in laptop drives. Laptop drives will always be leaps and bounds behind the rest, because of the fact that they use platters just like 3.5" drives.
Hard drive growth has been huge, actually, and it hasn't seemed to slow down... just last year 1TBs had come out and were amazing, but we were all still drooling over our 500GBs. Now we're all buying up these 1TBs like they're going out of style while these huge, fast SSD drives (with good price drops) continue to be churned out. - Mohdoo, on 01/09/2009, -0/+9Got a link to a HDD with .1ms response time?
- wpc33, on 01/09/2009, -1/+10Whenever a HDD goes caput, it's due to a mechanical failure/defect. Your concerns are fine, but you're comparing tomatoes to coconuts.
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