SolidState Drive
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SolidState Drive
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 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!
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 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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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
"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
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!
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!
Re: SolidState Drive
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).PhilgB wrote:Rusty075 says the transfer speed is 110MB/s but most I have seen say they are between 8-16MB/s.
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.
MGP you're not helping lol
So this thing is probably using flash memory and not great for performance (besides heat/noise)?
So this thing is probably using flash memory and not great for performance (besides heat/noise)?
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 ). I was just trying to provide a name/model of an apparently top-notch solid-state HD that I had heard of.
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.
Wonder how much that BitMicro drive costs. Casual googling failed to turn up any prices.
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Re: SolidState Drive
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.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?