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    Intel Updates SSD Line: A Little Bit Faster, A Little Bit Cheaper

    Hitachi SimpleTOUGH USB Drive Shrugs Off 10 Foot Freefalls

    Hard Rectangular Drive Is Faster, More Efficient Than SSD

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    Image of LelandBogdan LelandBogdan
    07/21/09

    In reply to Intel Updates SSD Line: A Little Bit Faster, A Little Bit Cheaper
    I want a SSD drive for my MBP, but 160gb is too small!

    320gb would be nice.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/21/09

    @LelandBogdan: Likewise. I'd be willing to downgrade from 500 to 320 to get the durability of an SSD. That would be sweet.
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    Image of drum drum
    07/21/09

    In reply to Intel Updates SSD Line: A Little Bit Faster, A Little Bit Cheaper
    i find your enthusiasm lacking.. these are very nice drives and the price drop is huge!

    the best consumer ssd's in the world are now among the cheapest, whats not to be excited about? I want one bad... oh a 320GB version is around the corner
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    Image of Segador Segador
    07/21/09

    In reply to Intel Updates SSD Line: A Little Bit Faster, A Little Bit Cheaper
    These will replace platter drives in less than 5 years - when the price becomes more reasonable. For now, I'll stick with a Raptor if I need a fast drive.
     Reply
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    Image of glamajamma glamajamma
    07/21/09

    In reply to Intel Updates SSD Line: A Little Bit Faster, A Little Bit Cheaper
    2 or 3 more years, then price point and capacity will equal a value I can appreciate
     Reply
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    Image of rimplestultskin, macberry fanboy rimplestultskin, macberry fanboy
    07/17/09

    In reply to Hitachi SimpleTOUGH USB Drive Shrugs Off 10 Foot Freefalls
    at $140 for 500GB, it's better than most other rugged hard drives at the price-per-GB game.

    i'll get one when it's $200 for a terabyte, since that's what i'm paying now for WD MyBooks.

    also, how does such a tank of a hard drive breathe? because overheating is just as bad as falling off a cliff.
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    Image of Knirfie Knirfie
    07/17/09

    In reply to Hitachi SimpleTOUGH USB Drive Shrugs Off 10 Foot Freefalls
    It's also waterproof.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    07/17/09

    @Knirfie:

    no it ain't.

    "Drop and spill resistant"
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    Image of joelydanger joelydanger
    07/17/09

    In reply to Hitachi SimpleTOUGH USB Drive Shrugs Off 10 Foot Freefalls
    Wow this looks pretty cool and I'm really tempted to buy one since it wont need a case and doesn't look like it would scratch. I accidently dropped my WD portable while it was still plugged in and spinning from about 5' and when I realized what I did I froze and didn't want to look down. Its worked perfectly fine since, but I haven't been that freaked out since I saw The Dark Crystal as a kid.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    07/17/09

    @joelydanger:

    one of those 'noooooooo!' moments, eh? like when Ralph loses the lug nuts in A Christmas Story?

    Only I didn't say "Fudge." I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the "F-dash-dash-dash" word!
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    Image of Kakkoister Kakkoister
    06/22/09

    In reply to Hard Rectangular Drive Is Faster, More Efficient Than SSD
    I'd still rather have SSD's. As fabrication process's get smaller and smaller, they will vastly overtake the amount of data that can be stored on a magnetic platter. Plus they are more resistant to physical damage.


    Plus there's a problem with this tech, since your fabricating the millions of heads like you would a memory chip or CPU, that takes up A LOT of the wafer space. So the cost for each of these drives would be around $1000, just for manufacture cost's.


    It's not going to be worth it, SSD's are going to be increasing in speed quite a bit, especially when we start getting down to the fabrication processes that use graphene and carbon nanotubes.

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    Image of NeoAkira NeoAkira
    06/22/09

    @Kakkoister:


    I work in a nanotech lab and I'll tell you that it will be YEARS before you start seeing graphene and carbon nanotube-based chips being sold commercially.

     Reply
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    Image of prunetracy prunetracy
    06/22/09

    In reply to Hard Rectangular Drive Is Faster, More Efficient Than SSD
    yes, but the real questions is- will it blend?
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    Image of prunetracy prunetracy
    06/23/09

    @prunetracy:

    oh c'mon guys. that's HARDLY a 'first' type banworthy comment. i was exhausted at work- surely you've all done things in a work stupor before.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    06/23/09

    @prunetracy: Yes. Yes it is.


    So long, and thanks for all the fish.

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    Image of Carlo Gaudreault Carlo Gaudreault
    06/22/09

    In reply to Hard Rectangular Drive Is Faster, More Efficient Than SSD
    Once we get to a point where data is limitless and instantaneous, whats next?
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    Image of lolgreg lolgreg
    06/22/09

    @Carlo Gaudreault: Using data as fuel... that's what's next.
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    Image of Death Death
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    I've owned way too many faulty Iomega products to ever consider buying anything else from them.
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    Image of not_a_virus.exe.vbs not_a_virus.exe.vbs
    05/18/09

    @Death: I have only owned one, the Zip. Now whenever I see anything iomega I don't even bother.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    Iomega eGo Hard Drives are good enough, smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like them.


    Fixed it.

     Reply
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    Image of collectiveego collectiveego
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    sick, eGo is my steam id, crazy...i really want one now.
     Reply
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/18/09

    @collectiveego: and what's your steam password?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    For a while, I've wanted a portable HDD that I could use on a laptop, but I was always on the fence about the quality of a lot of these things. Another issue was being able to easily open the enclosure up, and toss the drive if ever I wanted to upgrade, so I bought one of these...


    [eshop.macsales.com]


    All it really requires is snapping the drive onto the chipset then screwing it in place. I very much prefer these things over prebuilt portable externals.

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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    Seems fair enough, until you realize this is the same company that made and then STOPPED MAKING the Zip drive.


    So yeah, sure, "pretty enough," "cheap enough" yada yada yada. But just wait until you buy one of these only to find out in 10, 20 years IOMEGA will STOP supporting them!

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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    05/18/09

    @frigg: I was considering more the whole 'portable-click-o'-death' problem...
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    Image of szrimaging szrimaging
    05/18/09

    @frigg: Wait...you are getting at them for not supporting a technology that was passed by newer, better technologies that there was little to no demand for? Wow, just wow. Lets face it, the Zip Drive was doomed once portable hard drives like these became accessible.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/18/09

    @szrimaging: I'd say the SD card is the better replacement for the Zip drive than the portable hard drive. Only problem is that not everyone has a reader (I'm looking at you Apple).
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/18/09

    @frigg: ... was sort of kidding about the OMG it will be obsolete in 20 years thing!!!... *shuffles back under bridge*
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