OCZ has announced the launch of their Colossus solid-state drive (SSD), which will offer an impressive 1TB of storage space. The drive will be aimed at consumers needing an external drive and will be specifically marketed to gamers, due to its extremely fast speed and high capacity. ComputerWorld says the drive will use a Indilinx controller and will "come with two or four controllers ...
Read full articleOriginally posted by Ryoohki:not really the military makes Mass Storage using HDDs as well as Mass Backups. they really pride themselves on there Communication center.
It will probably be another 10 years before larger capacity SSD will even approach affordability. These types of drives are really only viable in the corporate world. I know the military is big on using solid state drives since they are much more rugged than hard drives. It is doubtful the average gamer would even consider paying 2200 on something like that. Only the ones you hear about in the news who play games for a living would be interested as they are the ones with enough money to be continually upgrading their system to make sure they have the latest and greatest (or have sponsors who get the equipment for them).
Originally posted by Hyasuma:SSD would be good in an Primary OS installation, using an HDD As an application source
I think the people who will willing to use SDD are pretty much just the companies or government people, but to normal teenage, families, I dont think is necessary to use SDD
Quote:Yes, their stationary computers use hard drives...but there are applications where an SSD is the only viable option. The extreme vibrations and shocks associated with battle and with navigation of post-battle conditions will kill an ordinary laptop hard drive very quickly.Originally posted by Ryoohki:not really the military makes Mass Storage using HDDs as well as Mass Backups. they really pride themselves on there Communication center.
It will probably be another 10 years before larger capacity SSD will even approach affordability. These types of drives are really only viable in the corporate world. I know the military is big on using solid state drives since they are much more rugged than hard drives. It is doubtful the average gamer would even consider paying 2200 on something like that. Only the ones you hear about in the news who play games for a living would be interested as they are the ones with enough money to be continually upgrading their system to make sure they have the latest and greatest (or have sponsors who get the equipment for them).
Originally posted by varnull:No one will ever use more than 640K....yeesh, why limit yourself??
I can't honestly see any need at all for this amount of ssd storage.
Originally posted by dorkydork:Most of the SSD drives I have seen are soemthign like this
Did you guys hear about the new 64GB SD cards? Would these be fast enough? Could you boot off these mofo's and then add more as needed?
Quote:So that 1TB one is almsot twice as fast.
PQI DK9640GD2R000A03 2.5" MLC Internal 64GB SATA II Solid state disk (SSD)
- Read: 154.1 MB/s
- Write: 90.8 MB/s
- MTBF: 1,500,000 hours
Originally posted by varnull:Ya but USB is ass slow, USB3 will be better but its not a sata/ide/pci/pci-e connection it sucks anal cakes.
You can boot off a 32mb card if your boot files are small enough.. and add as many as you want.
Originally posted by DXR88:So its not like flash where the data is there but you can't write to it anymore?
Not to mention EMP, you can recover data on a HDD but once the SDD breaks down thats all she wrote.
Quote:Not that i'm aware of, it might but i doubt it.Originally posted by DXR88:So its not like flash where the data is there but you can't write to it anymore?
Not to mention EMP, you can recover data on a HDD but once the SDD breaks down thats all she wrote.
Originally posted by varnull:Flash and SSD are 2 different things you mentioned 32NB flash.... and yes I am a noob...well.... I think I have evolved to a hack but there again I fail either way . :P
When ssd fails it's dead.. for good.. usually comes up as no device and theres no way at all to access it... no prospect of data recovery.
Guess what. I build micro machines which boot from ssd cards.. the start/boot time is faster because there is no spinup time and I run them on ssd-ide interface cards NOT usb.. n00b. Check what you are talking about before shooting your mouth off.. I wouldn't use usb1 or 2 for a boot device.
Originally posted by KillerBug:Forgive me but are not the fist SATA flash stuff real flash cards on a sata bus?
"They also have soem flash sata stuff but I bet an OS would chew through it ASAP"
Yeah, a SATA flash drive is called an SSD! What did you think we were talking about?
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