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- yensed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Screw Blu-Ray and HD-DVD for games, Bring Back Cartridges!
- anasazi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12probably a case of if you have to ask you can't afford it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Standard IDE? Isn't SATA the norm now?
- SirNuke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I am guessing that within a few years consumers will likely be able to get flash hard drives at twice the price of same capacity platter (current technology) hard drive. Bitmicro already sells solid state drives to corporations, and is working on a consumer line.
- OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5price?
- imightbewrong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5wow actually an interesting idea, flash storage/price will catch up to next gen disc in a few years
- NuttyAvatar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I see the end for Hard Disks
- evilspoons, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Just buy 4 8gb iPod Nanos ;) It'll cost the same, store the same amount, and you'll get four times the battery life! Haha...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5actually, i've always been a fan of carts. remmeber how hard those things where to break? and how fast they loaded? optical media could never hold a candle to it except in the realm of storage.
- evilspoons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The $3700 is the price of a Samsung laptop with Samsung's SSD. This is about $900 more than the same laptop without the SSD, according to engadget.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3can anyone confirm if these SSD use flash memory, becuase if they do ***** that. most flash modules are rated for 100,000 read write cycles before they go bust. i don't see that being fesable in a home pc.
if they've over come the problem then great, otherwise i wouldn't reccomend them at all. - masterthiefster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow... my current hard drive is only 40 gigs... but the price difference still doesn't make this a strong option.
- pillfred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i bet you saw this after checking out the "new engadget". lol
- imightbewrong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2they'll be in all laptops in a few years
- mateo60, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I want one.........but I probably can't afford it. Last I heard it was $3,700
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+220 seconds to read the article, 40 seconds to read the Digg comments, 15 seconds to write this... Now 30 more seconds to go wipe up my drool and change my shirt
- pucosk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1fesable? haha, they as flash based. But the 100k rewrites were for the 1st gen old flash modules. These can handle around 1M IIRC, plus the logic prohibits wiritng to same cell and can dynamically remap the blocks. So if a block is about to fail the logic just turns it off. So no data loss. And I think the reliability will be much better then for HDDs. At least in mobile scenarios.
- caliform, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As these kind of SSD's are used in Flight Recorders, I assume not.
- xr56n44, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1SATA will be standard just as soon as a fcuking CD/DVD drive comes out using SATA.
GRRRRR - myuninstalled, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There's a link on my blog to a detailed performance test of the Samsung SSD disk if you're interested. I write about uninstalling everything from my desktop and have all data online and only use online webapplications. So 32 GB is more than enough for my uninstalled PC.
http://www.myuninstalledlife.com/ - yensed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It would be so Awesome if iPods(and other portable players) start using these in the future.. Better battery life and much less hardware problems.
- OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2they have those mini-SD things that are like the size of a person's thumbnail and hold 2gb or more. you would have to keep a coffee cup next to your game console so you wouldn't lose your game "chips".
- binaryspiral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In june the laptop that was released with the 32GB SSD had a $900 (USD equiv) mark up compared to the same laptop with a HDD.
$900 for solid state goodness... I could justify it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1nm...
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