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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    11/17/09

    In reply to Fusion-io IoXtreme SSD: Fastest Consumer SSD on the Market
    Maybe we'll eventually see PCs and notebooks with built-in high-speed, low-capacity SSDs from which to boot (I'd love to see Win7 cold-boot in 6 seconds or whatever), with mechanical hard drives to hold our ever-increasing store of movies and porn.

    Until solid-state can compete on price with spinning discs, that seems like a good compromise. At some point, I'm going to update my HTPC that way, so it boots fast from a 60 GB or 80 GB SSD, but has a couple of 2 TB drives for all my... um... legally acquired media. *cough* #fusionioioxtreme
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    Image of STiger STiger
    11/17/09

    @Kirkaiya: I had a friend ask me about this for his computer. It sounds like a really good idea to do, and I might just do it for my own computer after I acquire the funds.

    Hell, I wish my laptop had an SSD to boot from... #fusionioioxtreme
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    11/18/09

    @STiger: Maybe notebook manufacturers (do you read comments, Lenovo???) will start doing that for high-end models. I know I'd be willing to pay more for an onboard fast mini-SSD to boot my next ThinkPad from, with a standard 2.5" drive-bay for either a second, larger-capacity (but slower & cheaper) SSD or a fat 320GB spinning drive. Maybe someone (consumers to Lenovo, come in Lenovo...) will build it. Here's hoping! #fusionioioxtreme
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    Image of blash blash
    11/17/09

    In reply to Fusion-io IoXtreme SSD: Fastest Consumer SSD on the Market
    I'm gonna give it the boot for not being bootable. #fusionioioxtreme
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    Image of Odin Odin
    09/22/09

    In reply to mSATA: It's Like SATA But Smaller
    Wow, and it's not like SATA was ever even big.
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    Image of MarcusMaximus MarcusMaximus
    09/21/09

    In reply to mSATA: It's Like SATA But Smaller
    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")
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    Image of danger the pirate danger the pirate
    09/21/09

    @MarcusMaximus: $95 oops.
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    Image of MarcusMaximus MarcusMaximus
    09/21/09

    @danger the pirate: Ya, someone there found the same one(or pretty close at least). Major pain. I'll probably just sell it on ebay.
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    Image of (Starman) Starman (Starman) Starman
    09/21/09

    In reply to mSATA: It's Like SATA But Smaller
    Every Firewire fanboy's dream: mFireWire3200. :(
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    09/21/09

    In reply to mSATA: It's Like SATA But Smaller

    IDE? THIS IS mSATAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
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    Image of trrosen trrosen
    09/21/09

    In reply to mSATA: It's Like SATA But Smaller
    should have been SATA Nano or SATAn for short.
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    09/21/09

    @trrosen: Reminds me of the Seattle S.L.U.T.
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    09/21/09

    @I3ob the Lizard: Robin Williams Likes the S.L.U.T.!
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    09/21/09

    In reply to mSATA: It's Like SATA But Smaller
    Mmmmmm mSATA!
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    Image of balls187 balls187
    08/12/09

    In reply to OCZ Firmware Update Fixes "Dirty" SSDs In Its Spare Time
    Heh 9GB, try 240MB.
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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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    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.
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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
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    Image of mikeborisov mikeborisov
    07/16/09

    In reply to Corsair's New Extreme SSD Line Is Blazingly Fast
    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.
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    Image of regnez regnez
    07/16/09

    @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.

    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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    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.

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