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| Posted on 05-05-10 01:53:39 PM (last edited by Hiryuu at 05-05-10 10:54 AM) |
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Wait til the end of May...
Provided you have a USB 3.0 port and the ability to pay for this (which I assume will be a ridiculous price for the speed), you'll get a drive that beats out any spinning drive from OCZ. |
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Technical innovation is great, and as it can be pain in the ass copying large amounts of data off/to external drives at times, this beast might come in handy. But if this thing costs like 600-1000 USD in its highest variant with 256 GB, you still only have one reliable source. And concerning this will indeed will be very pricy, I would expect this thing uses single-level cells instead of MLCs (I know, Wikipedia, but many sources can be found easily, which prove that). These have less lifespan than SLCs, although they are more expensive.
Even if I had the hardware and money for that, I would just buy regular external drives and/or internal SSDs (or external via a card-reader's slot probably, don't know too much in that term) for that amount of cash, as I have more reliability - several drives probably will NOT fail all at once.
But it sounds great indeed. Hook up your USB 3.0 drive, copy a few movies over to your computer - several hundered gigs in a few minutes - sounds really nice. Just wait long enough when USB 3.0 and storage devices like this are spread more and the prices drop significantly; probably the speed probably could even improve more by then 
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Yea. Moore's law won't make this affordable for another eight years at least. That's the sad thing. But it's nice to see and at the same time hope there are early adopters around here that can so 'oh man this is the shit' and actually have the product to back up their claim.
Long shot but hey.  |
