are these hybrid? I thought hybrid drives would sport a big ssd memory with spinning disks. These ones they say "no moving parts", i guess they're pure flash memory.With these hybrid drives in development, I was expecting later this year or next year
$20,000 for the 128GB.. aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
no, thanks.
http://www.dvnation.com/ssd.html has SSDs now! From 8GB to 128GB in capacity. IDE and SATA. As low as $599. The speeds vary but the features are mostly the same. Indestructable. I put the 16GB SSD in my Aopen Pandora miniPC and will put one in my next laptop computer.
are these hybrid? I thought hybrid drives would sport a big ssd memory with spinning disks. These ones they say "no moving parts", i guess they're pure flash memory.With these hybrid drives in development, I was expecting later this year or next year
Completely off-topic, but that website has one of the worst layout/font/look I've ever seen.
sure man... i never said they were bad products, i just said they're expensive.
either. But if you have the money, what about a 8GB drive with a 65MB read speed as your boot drive. Still room to put a couple games on there. When you combine a 45 - 65MB/s read spead with a <1ms access time instead of a 8ms access time, I'd think that you couldn't beat. I'm
http://www.dvnation.com/ssd.html has SSDs now! From 8GB to 128GB in capacity. IDE and SATA. As low as $599. The speeds vary but the features are mostly the same. Indestructable. I put the 16GB SSD in my Aopen Pandora miniPC and will put one in my next laptop computer.
And you seem not to realise that ordinary magnetic hdds also have a finite lifespan. Once you start getting bad sectors, you can throw that out, too. Remember that you have no moving parts, and those are 5 million erase/rewrite cycles, with theoretically infinite reads (unlike magnetic hdds). Unless you have a really small ram and a huge pagefile, and you keep deleting and reinstalling everything every second, they will last much longer than ordinary hdds.What bugs me about these drives is that no-one seems to have realised that they have a very finite lifespan. There is a limited number of read/write cycles each cell can do, and once you start getting cells failing, you might as well get a new drive.
However, if only once your battery runs out, or there is a short, then all your data goes bye-bye...Me, I wouldn't get one for my desktop. If I had to spend that kind of money on a storage device, I'd either get something like a 5 terabyte NAS or a 32 gig RAMdisk, the one that plugs into your pci slot. Getting nanosecond seek time and thousands of megabytes of speed, it just sounds way better. I'd also get the one with the internal battery so I don't ever lose anything...
Whoa. That was fast. With these hybrid drives in development, I was expecting later this year or next year.
M-Systems' (www.m-sys.com) 90 GB example shown here. The only bubble in the bathtub is its $27,725 price tag.
And you seem not to realise that ordinary magnetic hdds also have a finite lifespan. Once you start getting bad sectors, you can throw that out, too. Remember that you have no moving parts, and those are 5 million erase/rewrite cycles, with theoretically infinite reads (unlike magnetic hdds). Unless you have a really small ram and a huge pagefile, and you keep deleting and reinstalling everything every second, they will last much longer than ordinary hdds.