Alright, I posed this question on the engadget story as well, but you gizmodoians are generally a bit more.. intelligent. Anyone know if there's an adapter that can go from one of those mini PCIE SATA SSD's for Eee PC's to a normal PCIE x1 or normal desktop SATA? (long story, but basically My fiancee's brother ordered the wrong part and we didn't notice the word "mini")
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
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.
sure, reporting blistering sequential read and write speeds gets the girls all wet, but in real world usage, random read/write is everything. Nobody's gotten close to Intel's X25 yet, despite how (by gadget terms) ancient that drive is.
@mikeborisov: That's not completely accurate. While the X25 drives cannot be touched in random write terms, other drives have already surpassed them (substantially) in random reads -- including one of Corsair's own.
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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.
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.
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320gb would be nice.
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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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Apparently, when you edit a comment, you can no longer embed some links.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2009/06/05/corsair-p256-256gb-ssd-review/6
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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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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.
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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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So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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