• Gizmodo
  • bestmodo
  • lifehacker
  • kotaku
  • Profile logout login

#storage#mitadgpsmitadpmphtml

Gizmodo

Share Cancel
   
Upload an image | Add an image URL
×

logging in
  • FAQ. Include # before tag:
  • #tips,
  • #dealzmodo,
  • #rumors,
  • #broken,
  • #iphoneapps,
  • #apple,
  • etc.

New York, 7:42 PM
Tue Dec 8
85 posts in the last 24 hours

FR | IT | DE | SP | JP | AU | BR

Gizmodo Team

Tip your editors:

Editorial Director:
Brian Lam | | Twitter

Editor:
Jason Chen
| AIM | Twitter

Features Editor:
Wilson Rothman
| Twitter

Senior Contributing Editors:
Jesus Diaz
| AIM | Twitter
Mark Wilson, Reviews
| AIM | Twitter

Contributing Editors:
Matt Buchanan
| AIM | Twitter
Adam Frucci
| Twitter
Sean Fallon
| Twitter
Jack Loftus
| Twitter
John Herrman
| Twitter
Dan Nosowitz

Chris Mascari

Danny Allen
| Twitter
Rosa Golijan
| Twitter
Chris Jacob

Columnist:
Brendan I. Koerner

Interns:
Don Nguyen

Kyle VanHemert

Heroes and Friends

Comment Account Questions:

SUBSCRIBE TO Gizmodo RSS

New: Breaking news and daily top stories via email
9515 Subscribers
Gizmodo
  • Your version of Internet Explorer is not supported. Please upgrade to the most recent version in order to view comments.
    Dsmvwl  Admin  Promote to frontpage Approve user Ban user ×
    Image of Gordonium Gordonium
    12:56 PM

    In reply to Seagate Pulsar is the Drive Maker's First Solid-State Drive
    Well, that sounds spiffy and all, but every Seagate drive that I or my brother have ever owned has died within three years. I just don't trust the name anymore.

    Edit: Just to clarify, by "name," I meant "Seagate," and not my family's name ;)
     Reply
    Edited by Gordonium at 12/08/09 12:57 PM Gordonium was starred Gordonium was unstarred
    Image of blash blash
    01:46 AM

    In reply to Seagate Pulsar is the Drive Maker's First Solid-State Drive
    Well, last I checked Intel sold some 40 GB SLC drives with specs close to that for around $390 on Newegg? So we'll see how the prices are. $300 for the 50 GB one and I'll be happy that prices are continuing their downward trend... $150 and I'll buy one for my laptop.
     Reply
    blash was starred blash was unstarred
    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/02/09

    In reply to Micron RealSSD Drives Claim Title of World's Fastest (by a Lot)
    Isn't Micron the company that released the JMicron controller chips that were horrendous in the early SSDs until Samsung and Intel showed them how it should be done?
     Reply
    Nathan Obbards was starred Nathan Obbards was unstarred
    Image of jpearls jpearls
    12/02/09

    @Nathan Obbards: No.

    Micron Technology offers DRAM components, modules, and NAND Flash memory.

    JMicron - A fabless IC company in Taiwan focused on Serial ATA.
     Reply
    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment jpearls was starred jpearls was unstarred
    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/02/09

    @jpearls: Ok. Thanks for that clarification. I wish they showed what controller chip they were using, it'd be interesting to see where they're coming from.
     Reply
    Nathan Obbards was starred Nathan Obbards was unstarred
    Image of jpearls jpearls
    12/02/09

    @Nathan Obbards: "RealSSD C300 features "a new proprietary controller and firmware that was designed in partnership with [Marvell]" as well as 256MB of DDR3 cache memory" [forums.hardwarezone.com.sg]
     Reply
    jpearls was starred jpearls was unstarred
    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    12/03/09

    @jpearls: If it's in partnership with Marvell, a major ARM licensee, then a fair bet that they controller is based on an ARM processor design (along with Samsung's SSD controller, and a few others).
     Reply
    Kirkaiya was starred Kirkaiya was unstarred
    Image of DustyButt™ DustyButt™
    12/01/09

    In reply to SD Cards About to Get a Whole Lot Zippier (Like, 300MB a Second Zippy)
    How would this compare to the transfer speed of a Bluray disc?
     Reply
    DustyButt™ was starred DustyButt™ was unstarred
    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    12/01/09

    @DustyButt™: A 1x Blu-Ray drive transfers data at 36Mbps. At 8x, it's still 288 Mbps. Keeping in mind, that's bits, not bytes. The above transfer speed is measured in bytes.

    Assuming no errors (and that my math is correct), it completely demolishes the transfer rate of a Blu-Ray disc. Unsurprising as moving parts tend to be a huge bottleneck, generally speaking.

    (Also: this is all theoretical. Practical, likely different. Your mileage may vary.)
     Reply
    OCEntertainment was starred OCEntertainment was unstarred
    Image of kagehyo6 kagehyo6
    12/01/09

    @OCEntertainment: Your theory seems correct! When the price of SD cards go down, could it be possible to have an entire movie collection in a shoebox, so to speak? My question is... would sound quality be lacking on an SD card? Eg.: PCM vs. Bitstream? Or Dolby TrueHD?
     Reply
    dagamer34 promoted this comment kagehyo6 was starred kagehyo6 was unstarred
    Image of dagamer34 dagamer34
    12/01/09

    @kagehyo6: At 300MBps, isn't that the same bandwidth as a SATA II connection??!?!
     Reply
    dagamer34 was starred dagamer34 was unstarred
    Image of kagehyo6 kagehyo6
    12/01/09

    @dagamer34: I had to look it up, but yea, that's correct!
     Reply
    kagehyo6 was starred kagehyo6 was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
    12/01/09

    In reply to SD Cards About to Get a Whole Lot Zippier (Like, 300MB a Second Zippy)
    Bah, I have my SmartMedia card, and I like it just fine!
     Reply
    GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga was starred GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga was unstarred
    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    12/01/09

    In reply to SD Cards About to Get a Whole Lot Zippier (Like, 300MB a Second Zippy)
    *raises hand* Can Matt or someone explain the durability comment from their experience? What's not durable about SD cards?
     Reply
    Fractal the Meek was starred Fractal the Meek was unstarred
    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    12/01/09

    @Fractal the Meek: Compact Flash is bigger than a frosted flake.

    Or, in the immortal words of J from the Men in Black, who I believe, if I recall correctly, was referring to SD cards: "I feel like I'm gonna break this damn thing!"
     Reply
    OCEntertainment was starred OCEntertainment was unstarred
    Image of Scott Crawford Scott Crawford
    11/29/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    Good and amusing but as others point out, still room for improvement. Surely film came before the photo....and there were more before the flloppy....starting with punchcards and magnetic reels, tapes. Still, good effort though!
     Reply
    SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! approved this comment Scott Crawford was starred Scott Crawford was unstarred
    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    11/29/09

    @Scott Crawford: But punchcards were not really an storage device, but input methods.
     Reply
    SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! was starred SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! was unstarred
    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    11/29/09

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: Actually, they were both.
     Reply
    HurtsSoGood was starred HurtsSoGood was unstarred
    Image of denisnossevitch denisnossevitch
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    WTF is a wax cylinder? Is that that thing they use as candles in church?
     Reply
    lostarchitect promoted this comment denisnossevitch was starred denisnossevitch was unstarred
    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    11/28/09

    @denisnossevitch: I'm assuming you're kidding.. but just in case:
    [en.wikipedia.org]
     Reply
    lostarchitect was starred lostarchitect was unstarred
    Image of denisnossevitch denisnossevitch
    11/29/09

    @lostarchitect: Wow that wiki changed my life. They had technology back in 1888?!
     Reply
    denisnossevitch was starred denisnossevitch was unstarred
    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    he missed out C90 tapes and C120's with cassette tapes.. C60's were hardly used...
     Reply
    KhaiJB was starred KhaiJB was unstarred
    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    11/29/09

    @KhaiJB: They were too. Longer cassettes got eaten more often, and the C-60s were dirt cheap.
     Reply
    HurtsSoGood was starred HurtsSoGood was unstarred
    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    11/29/09

    @KhaiJB: *shrug* going by where I lived.. C90's and 120's sold more than the C60's. tho mainly C90's.
     Reply
    KhaiJB was starred KhaiJB was unstarred
    Image of RipRapRob RipRapRob
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    The constant change of units makes the chart much less informative than it could have been.

    The same goes for using the same color for a minute of music, one photo (what size?) and one MB.

    Plus the size of the Flash-drive compared to ... is that a CD, DVD or Blu-ray? One or two layers?

    And at first glance it looks like a 2.5" 500GB HD only contains 50 GB. Same for 3.5" 2TB HD.

    All because the 'headers' for these suddenly is the size of each unit/colored square, and not the to total capacity, as it is on the rest of the chart.

    It's not enough to make a chart that looks nice. It has to present the information in a way that makes more sense than just listing the data.
     Reply
    lostarchitect promoted this comment RipRapRob was starred RipRapRob was unstarred
    Image of os_2 os_2
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    ah.. 5 1/4" floopies, I remember punching holes on other side so I can use the backside for storage. It seems like it was yesterday.
     Reply
    Curves promoted this comment os_2 was starred os_2 was unstarred
    Image of Curves Curves
    11/28/09

    @os_2: I just cleaned out my "tech and media" closet and found a set of like six 5.25" install disks for for some old software.

    Obviously, I need to clean out that closet more often.
     Reply
    Curves was starred Curves was unstarred
    Image of bubbagrump bubbagrump
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    Syquest drives? tape drives? it's nice but not very complete.
     Reply
    dingus promoted this comment bubbagrump was starred bubbagrump was unstarred
    Image of dingus dingus
    11/28/09

    @bubbagrump: No 9 tracks, disk packs, or punch cards. Clearly the guy who made this had his first computer come in a cow-patterned box.
     Reply
    dingus was starred dingus was unstarred
    Image of Kingofhearts589 Kingofhearts589
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    Color fail on the Data Storage section. Otherwise, great chart.
     Reply
    Homerjay is utterly alone. promoted this comment Kingofhearts589 was starred Kingofhearts589 was unstarred
    Image of BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    I store everything in my shed. Does that count?
     Reply
    BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 was starred BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 was unstarred
    Image of ploopsy ploopsy
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    Long story short.

    Anything that you send back in time will blow the recipients minds.
     Reply
    PN - gooapplesoft promoted this comment ploopsy was starred ploopsy was unstarred
    Earlier discussions Other discussions Show all discussions Show featured discussions only Start a new discussion

Login

Enter your username and password.

Please enter a username.
Please enter your password.
logging in
Login via Facebook | Sign Up | Forgot Password?

Reset Password

Please enter your email address to have your password reset.

Please enter your email address.
Please enter a valid email address.
requesting password reset

Register

Registering will give you a user profile and the ability to add other users as friends. To become a commenter, however, you need to audition.

Want to know more? Consult the Comment FAQ and legal terms.

Please enter a username.
Please enter a password.
Please confirm your password.
Passwords are not identical.
Please enter a valid email address.
registration sent, waiting for reply

Submit Your Comment

You don't need to login to comment. Just enter your email address below.

See how your address will be displayed in the Comment FAQ.

Please enter a valid email address.
Please enter a valid email address.
logging in

Login with your Facebook or Gizmodo account.

Sign up here.



  • Archives
  • About
  • Advertising
  • Legal
  • Help
  • Report a Bug
  • FAQ
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.