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Posted on 05-12-09 01:41:19 PM Link | Quote
654 dollars.

220MB/s read. 200MB/s write. 114 year life expectancy.

Next thing you know, we'll have terabyte-strong SSDs of equal or better quality.

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Posted on 05-12-09 08:39:59 PM Link | Quote

The drive is already available for sale online at Antares Pro for a reasonable $653.99.


We have a problem here. How is this reasonable?

I would much rather go for the cheap alternative. I mean sure you can put a lot in this damn thing. But are you seriously going to fill this up with whatever it is you do? Unless you work 80 hours a week, then yeah. Otherwise, I think it is smart to just buy in bulk. Label your cards, and save about 400 dollars. I mean what the fuck?
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Posted on 05-12-09 08:51:29 PM Link | Quote
I had my hopes up when you said nearly affordable. They will be one day though, and then I'll grab one.
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Posted on 05-12-09 08:52:49 PM Link | Quote
Yea, hence the 'near'.

It's way down from its counterpart's price of 2600 with a quarter of the performance.

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Posted on 05-12-09 10:18:48 PM Link | Quote
Don't get me wrong, it's fairly reasonable for what it is. Just...still to expensive for my wallet.
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Posted on 05-12-09 10:59:10 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by BAN ME PLEASE

The drive is already available for sale online at Antares Pro for a reasonable $653.99.


We have a problem here. How is this reasonable?

I would much rather go for the cheap alternative. I mean sure you can put a lot in this damn thing. But are you seriously going to fill this up with whatever it is you do? Unless you work 80 hours a week, then yeah. Otherwise, I think it is smart to just buy in bulk. Label your cards, and save about 400 dollars. I mean what the fuck?


A stack of memory cards and a solid state drive are both flash memory, but the similarities mostly end there. One's not really an alternative to the other.
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Considering in the old days with more valuable dollars, 2 MB was $7200, this basically means in a year or two SSDs will overtake regular HDDs for good.

Good riddance, because all this time my fears of losing data have revolved around the flaws inherent in the spinning disc design.

With SSD the problem reverts to being one of the CPU not overheating and the Power Supply not exploding...

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Posted on 05-13-09 08:57:03 AM Link | Quote
Well, the removal of FSB for the start of i7 helps things.

But honestly, even that reaches a limit. It's all by drive design, still, at that point.

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Posted on 05-15-09 04:39:31 PM Link | Quote
I have the 80GB intel X25-M, which I really like. I can say that SSDs are a definitee improvement over hard disk drives. I just wish they were cheaper in larger capacities. I had a hard disk fail today. 1.5TB Seagate that was only a few months old. Woke up with it clicking and a few minutes later I couldn't read from it at all. Interestingly, my SSD stopped being readable at the same time, because I guess the SATA controller driver just blew up in some weird way. Unplugging the hard drive and rebooting fixed the issue. Kinda interesting seeing "-bash: /bin/ls: no such file or directory".
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Posted on 05-15-09 05:01:39 PM Link | Quote
The first-gen 1.5TB drives from Seagate were nothing but problems...hell the ROM had issues with drive panics and freezes (so bad that it would seize for ~30s or so). The newer ones released this month or last resolved that issue...

I still wouldn't buy them. Buy 1TB or less.

WD has a 2TB that apparently is getting good reviews but I wouldn't buy WD regardless.

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