Silencing hard drives, optical drives and other storage devices
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PhilgB
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by PhilgB » Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:40 am
Ok, MGP got me all fired up on these SSDs after mentioning it in this
other post.
Rusty075 says the transfer speed is 110MB/s but most I have seen say they are between 8-16MB/s. Now I know Rusty isnt lying
![Surprised :o](./images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif)
but Im still trying to find some in the 600MB-1GB range for a project Im working on.
Are there only certain types that run at that speed?
Where can I read more on these? Google usualy comes up with 32MB flash cards.
Thanks!
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Black Jack
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by Black Jack » Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:56 am
He was refering to bitmicro E-disks. 110 MB/s is the ATA version, so the transfer rate is limited by the IDE bus. SCSI version is faster:
"boasts random I/O rates of up to 50,000 IOPS, burst read/write rate of up to 320 MB/sec, sustained random read/write rate of up to 230 MB/sec, and capacities of up to 151.6 GB"
Check out more info at:
http://www.bitmicro.com/products_edisk.php
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MGP
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by MGP » Mon Jan 05, 2004 11:03 am
Phil,
Take a look at the "Hard Drive" section of table provided by the link below and tell me you if you've wet your pants yet...
http://www.geek.com/htbc/glanin.htm
So, 3.2GB of solid-state bliss DOES cost an arm and a leg and then some.
I hope the Quantum model reference helps in your search! Good luck!
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lenny
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by lenny » Mon Jan 05, 2004 11:16 am
PhilgB wrote:Rusty075 says the transfer speed is 110MB/s but most I have seen say they are between 8-16MB/s.
110 MB/s sounds like DRAM (actually even lowly SDRAM is way faster than that). 8 to 16 MB/s sounds like flash memory transfer rate (high end CF has transfer rate in that region).
Anyway I agree with MGP. Unless you're just considering a simple device that boots off a CF card, it's too costly to be practical.
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PhilgB
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by PhilgB » Mon Jan 05, 2004 12:23 pm
MGP you're not helping
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lol
So
this thing is probably using flash memory and not great for performance (besides heat/noise)?
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MGP
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by MGP » Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:24 pm
No, Phil, I was sorta joking and being serious. I mean, if one needs something for work, then one's gotta have it (e.g. if you use it for work and find a way/excuse, heheh, to use a solid-state HD to help make $$$, then go for it! ... Though I don't know of any work/profession that would apply
![Twisted Evil :twisted:](./images/smilies/icon_twisted.gif)
). I was just trying to provide a name/model of an apparently top-notch solid-state HD that I had heard of.
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lenny
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by lenny » Wed Jan 07, 2004 12:59 am
Well,
these guys have one that's much more affordable. 4 GB for only $3,600. What a bargain!
Wonder how much that BitMicro drive costs. Casual googling failed to turn up any prices.
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grandpa_boris
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by grandpa_boris » Wed Jan 07, 2004 2:56 am
PhilgB wrote:Im still trying to find some in the 600MB-1GB range for a project Im working on.
Are there only certain types that run at that speed?
does this have to be an external "drive"? or can you simply use NVRAM? you can get 1GB and smaller battery-backed PCI NVRAM boards from
micro memory. i think they have drivers that will make the board look like a physical disk to linux or NT.
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PhilgB
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by PhilgB » Wed Jan 07, 2004 6:51 am
I guess its not worth it right now. I got all hyped because I saw a couple of flash drives on ebay for a few bucks. Ill just have to wait.