engadget.com — Samsung's been hogging the Solid State Disk limelight for months with their 32GB SSD first peeped at CeBIT. So it does our invisible hand some good to hear TDK launch their version of the 32GB SSD, albeit in sample quantities only for the time being.
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nuttyavatarSep 19, 2006
I see the end for Hard Disks
sirnukeSep 19, 2006
I 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.
masterthiefsterSep 19, 2006
Wow... my current hard drive is only 40 gigs... but the price difference still doesn't make this a strong option.
binaryspiralSep 19, 2006
In 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.
pucoskSep 19, 2006
fesable? 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.
xr56n44Sep 19, 2006
SATA will be standard just as soon as a fcuking CD/DVD drive comes out using SATA.GRRRRR