*I want to try one in my Thinkpad X-41... small, expensive 65 GB for nearly $250... but the reports I get so far is that all of them are way too slow...
Anybody have a better report on the KingSpec SSD from Shenzhen, China at $239.89 with free shipping for 64 GB. Two year warranty. IDE LC. Sustained Read 65 MB/S Sustained Write 47 MB/S 1.8" Reports I get are that it is a lot slower than that, but no reports from Thinkpad users. * On the Crucial Front: Crucial has announced that it will launch its updated line of Crucial solid state drive (SSD) products on July 20, 2009. This "refreshed product line which they call the M225 Series, has MLC NAND flash components housed in the industry standard 2.5-inch SATA drive enclosure and interface. Crucial SSDs will be available in 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB capacities. Cost will initially be pretty high. But if they are right about this new and dramatic change in speed, we will have blazing-fast read and write speeds, and long term reliability. The Crucial folks claim their 256GB M225 Crucial SSD provides an impressive 250MB/sec read speed and a 200MB/sec write speed. The 128GB M225 SSD offers a 250MB/sec read speed and a 190MB/sec write speed, while the 64GB M225 SSD offers a 200MB/sec read speed and a 150MB/sec write speed. If true, Crucial SSD products will be an excellent alternative to the traditional hard drive found in notebooks. We can expect a few glitches, but since the SSDs have no moving parts, they should be quieter, cooler, and most importantly durable file and processing storage. Crucial is supposed to have this up on their website, www.crucial.com, as soon as today, but certainly before July 20th. We find this exciting, regardless of the cost when new. This means that Fujitsu, Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba, Samsung, Hitachi, and TriGem won't be far behind. Then, when Bruce sells them, we will know they work, Now if we can only talk them into making them for the 1.8" drives... I wonder if... * *__ Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ... .... ..... ...... ....... Lance Armstrong It is better to wear out than to rust out. Cicero, 106 BC On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:07 PM, STeve Andre' <[email protected]> wrote: > 500,000G is no joke. If the tgdaily article becomes real, then yes, it > will > happen. I've little doubt that something like this will happen. Maybe > not all at once, but it will. > > I'd love to have 4T on my W500. I think I could use most of that within > a year. Lots of others will too, I suspect. > > --STeve Andre' > > On Wednesday 01 July 2009 08:16:22 RayBay wrote: > > Ah, yes, it would "...make more sense to have more and, and cheaper flash > > instead..." > > > > and of course that is coming. > > > > But reliability has not yet arrived. > > > > When the day comes that they have the long-term reliability issues > > conquered, and when they have the speed issues engineered into them, then > > it will make more sense to have more, and cheaper, flash instead. > > > > That day is not yet here... but it is coming. Estimates are that we will > > not see speed and reliability on a large scale until 2011 or 2012... but > > there is always some clever engineer who figgers it out. > > > > Until more and cheaper and high speed flash is also as reliable as > current > > hard drives, then you will not see much movement beyond the experimental > > drives. Right now, they haven't figgered out "More" or "cheaper." > > > > What is more, there is not much demand driving the research at a time > when > > most companies are in turmoil. > > > > If Hitachi could perfect these technologies, it might keep them out of > > bankruptcy. If Samsung could get things perfected, it might make them > > competitive in the hard drive market. We have Fujitsu, Hitachi, Maxtor, > > Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba, TriGem, and Western Digital all competing for > > the same market. > > > > So far, the market cannot support eight drive manufacturers. Nobody has > > these new technologies working well. The one who succeeds will be King. > > > > 500,000 GB is a joke! Right? With low heat? With high speed? > > > > Reliable they are not. Yet. Speed? Not yet. 500TB at high speed and > > low heat. Not yet > > > > And their eventual price will surely not reach $10. Not Yet > > > > The power is not to the rich. Nor the battle to the strong. But that is > the > > way to bet. > > > > The meek shall inherit the earth, but not yet. > > > > > > yaR > > > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:25 AM, tOM Trottier <[email protected]> wrote: > > > They have just created magnetic storage < > > > http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/43042/135/> which holds 3 orders > of > > > magnitude more data in the same space. Your 500GB disk could then hold > > > 500,000GB. > > > > > > The real question then becomes, "How much is enough?" If 100-500GB > is > > > fine for you, then SSDs at their eventual price of $10 or so will be > > > fine. But if you want to hold all your HiDef movies for trips, or > > > eventually 3D HD movies, then you may appreciate 500TB. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Thinkpad mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
