How far off are Flash Based Hard Drives?

[TheGreatSatan]

How far off are Flash Based Hard Drives? It's pretty obvious that there's a bottleneck in system performance when the hard drive is being utilized. Since the hard drive spins slow by processor terms, it takes several seconds to retrieve data. It seems as the obvious choice to use Flash based NAND tech for HD's. The slow use use platters and actuators will be gone and PC's should see an obvious rise in speed, but how far off is that? I heard that there was a drive in the works that would store your OS boot in flash and make your boot time a couple seconds, but I haven't heard anything else about this in a while. Any one know?

[Omega]

Go to newegg.

And laptops have SSD's too.

[DaJe]

Yeah, they already exist, and have for a while.

[Airbozo]

One of the mobo manufacturer's (ASUS I think) has been touting a flash based storage built into the mobo, just for loading the OS. I will try to find the link, but I is swamped...

But yeah the ssd's have been around for a while and I recently configured a system for a custy with 2 16gb ssd's

[Omega]

oh god

a mobo with built in 8gb SSD for OS matters

that would OWN. HARD.

[Zephik]

I love whoever invented Solid State Hard Drives, no more moving parts! Yay! Most normal Hard Drives I've used in the past end up breaking sooner than later, mostly due to that I move my PC around a lot and I'm accident prone.

How does the performance of Solid State match up to normal hard drives? Anyone know? Not that I care too much, I'm sure with the available technology of today, it can't be comparable to dial up. At least I hope to bob not, that would be very disappointing if they are selling them so early in their design/testing/performance stage. Especially with the available technology that we have now.

Now if only they were cheaper. Its only a matter of time I suppose, but dangit, I'm an impatient person when it comes to new and desirable technology! lol

Ugh, just look at these prices!

I think your question, TGS, should of been more on the lines of "How far off are we from having practically priced Flash Based Hard Drives?" or something or another.

[Omega]

SSD's on ATA33 are faster than HDD's on SATA3.0

That should answer your question.

[DaJe]

Yay for Asus. I loved my pimped out P5W DH Deluxe.

[Zephik]

SSD's on ATA33 are faster than HDD's on SATA3.0

That should answer your question.

Awesome! Now if only we can work on that four thousand dollar price range...

With that much money, I could buy the worlds sweetest, non-corporate, raid system with anti-everything and put it all inside a thick black brushed aluminum box that has been especially designed for maximum heat dissipation and that also has a built in spring system for each hard drive, so it will survive even an earthquake.

Then again, technology gets cheaper every other month. So it'll probably be in the lower class enthusiast range by the summer of 2008. Then most likely affordable by people like us by winter of 2008 and then just affordable by 2009. Maybe even sooner if they throw money towards the solid state hard drive development teams.

[jdbnsn]

Is this the same idea as a RAM-bus? I guy I used to chat with built a comp with the latest and greatest hardware, plus added a RAM-bus for the first time in one of his systems. He said the load times were insanely boosted (like 8 seconds from power to windows desktop). He had a big one though, I think it was like 8 or 16 1GB sticks of RAM.