How far off are Flash Based Hard Drives?

[TheGreatSatan]

The onboard RAM.....Is that around already or only in the form of I-RAM? I didn't know that SSD was Flash based. So there's no platters?

[DaJe]

What I do know is that you can get a PCI board that you install RAM into and use it as flash memory.

[jdbnsn]

What I do know is that you can get a PCI board that you install RAM into and use it as flash memory.

That's what my friend had.

[Ap1thy]

ive been folowing those ssd's as well, but id rather get a raptor for more than half off an 16 gig ssd

[Omega]

ive been folowing those ssd's as well, but id rather get a raptor for more than half off an 16 gig ssd

That's what a lot of people would do.

As far as I know, however, SSD's still faster.

and, honestly

I want 8 128gb SSD drives for ONE TERABYTE OF BLAZINGLY FAST STORAGE. =D

[nil8]

Just a little side note for those truly interested in ssd technology.
Watch thin clients. They've been using flash drives for years, and the more advanced their little OS gets the more space it requires.
Such as an XP or Vista embed.

[Luke122]

That's what my friend had.

That's what she said.



Also, the thin clients I've used were totally diskless, just had 512mb ram in them. I've even built a few using p3 mobo's with 512mb ram. Set to PXE boot, and pull the image from the server.

[Quakken]

I flipping love the idea of a manufacturer putting flash on their mobo's. It could be totally integrated and have amazing fast OS operation. that would be so so so cool. They could get rid of SATA altogether for the OS, and reserve it for storage drives. Awesome.

And it's going to just get cheaper and cheaper as better technologies come along. Fully solid state will happen soon. Then, with heatspreaders and only using usb drives for CD-like applications, you could have a completely silent system. How awesome is that going to be?

[J-Roc]

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

That should answer your question.

Umm, is that true? Now im no expert but, how on earth could a 33MB/s bus even with the SSD drive compare in speed terms to the 3GB/s SATA2 with the fastest plater based drive? You might obviously get a quicker reply from the device but wouldn't it be bottle necked by the bus so much as to cancel any performance gain?

[Airbozo]

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.

I was working with an SSD unit with a total of 8 gb of space in a double wide server rack (7' tall ~48" wide), back in '85 built by Storage Tek. Total cost for an 8gb SSD rack? ~$750,000! Not to mention the power it sucked and the heat it generated. It had a failure almost weekly and never caught on.

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.

Interestingly (or not) enough the performance of the ssd'd are bottlenecked by the controller.

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.

As they gain acceptance the cost will drop.