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SanDisk's solid-state drive using flash memory, starts at 32GB

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Found the product page.

http://www.sandisk.com/Oem/Default.aspx?CatID=1478

"Enhanced Performance
With no moving parts, SanDisk SSD does not need to spin up into action or to seek files in the way that conventional hard disk drives do - enabling SanDisk SSD to work much faster. SanDisk SSD UATA 5000 achieves a sustained read rate of 62-megabyte (MB)*/sec and a random read rate of 7000 inputs/outputs per second (IOPS) for a 512-byte transfer – more than 100 times faster than any hard disk drive."

Nothing amazing on the sustained, but the latency looks premium. 4 of these beauties on Matrix RAID........yum.
 
I don't know how in the world matrix raid would help a solid state drive LOL :p
 
I think it's a great idea, but- Most flash memory has low latency, but also low bandwidth. So loading up stuff will be quick, but copying a big file will take a long time. If they can just keep the bandwidth high enough I'd even buy one eventually.

FYI- You can already do this with Compactflash cards. Just pick up a 2/4/8gb compactflash card and an IDE converter from eBay, it will make the flash drive act just like an IDE hard drive. It will boot and everything. Instance solid state hard drive!
 
hyperasus said:
SanDisk SSD UATA 5000 achieves a sustained read rate of 62-megabyte (MB)*/sec and a random read rate of 7000 inputs/outputs per second (IOPS) for a 512-byte transfer – more than 100 times faster than any hard disk drive."

If that's a 'real-world' 62mbps that's not too bad. A lot of flash drives are only 10-15mbps at most.
 
greenmaji said:
I don't know how in the world matrix raid would help a solid state drive LOL :p

Faster sustained transfer rates. Wouldn't need to be Matrix RAID. Any RAID-0 would do.
 
Definetly looks interesting and seems to be finally coming into the mainstream. RIAD 0 arrays would be awesome with these as the performance detriment of higher seek times would be negated as well.
 
I thought flash memory only had a limited amount of reads and writes before the memory became unusable ?

A CF card for example, will probably last a very long time in a camera. A CF card connected to an IDE adapter and set as the swap partition on a very busy machine would kill the CF card pretty quickly.

I'm guessing they've found a way around this or do these drives use the same memory technology ?
 
Bios24 said:
I think it's a great idea, but- Most flash memory has low latency, but also low bandwidth. So loading up stuff will be quick, but copying a big file will take a long time. If they can just keep the bandwidth high enough I'd even buy one eventually.

FYI- You can already do this with Compactflash cards. Just pick up a 2/4/8gb compactflash card and an IDE converter from eBay, it will make the flash drive act just like an IDE hard drive. It will boot and everything. Instance solid state hard drive!


those compact flash cards arent that fast i didnt think. they have high speed cards, but still not THIS fast AFAIK, they dont even saturate USB2.0 at 60mb/s I dont think they actually come remotely near it. there are newer revisions version 3 and 4 that go 66 and 133mb/sec but not sure that they are really available.

nevermind that 32gb of them would be rather pricey. maybe 1gb at a time in the standard 16mb/sec youd get it for 320-600$ on sale after rebates. but youd need 32 ide slots... among other problems(32 IDE converters or whatever your reffering to) guess all in all it would make for a hell of a raid 0 array. but I think a 32gb drive for 600$ would be better.

besides if notebook makers charge 600, you know it will be 4 or 500 as a standalone part.
 
LOL

If sandisk is saying $600, then don't be surprised to see this at $800 on dell.com. Give it time though. This is a good think SanDisk has done. Capacity and speeds will go up, and prices will come down. Finally I see a notebook in the near future that I will actually be able to tolerate.
 
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