The new SSD Thread (Benchmarks, Brands, News and Advice)

[Mormegil83]

give me at least 16gb for a hundred bucks and i'll bite

[davepermen]

i can buy that here in our online shops. SAMSUNG SSD Drive UM410 MLC, 16GB (MMCRE32GSMPP-MVA00), 82$

but i think on ebay you can get much better bang for the buck

[Tomy B.]

it says 1 chip == 512 Mb, so 16 chips == 1 GB

if we get 4 GB it would be nice, or maybe more if chips are cheep

[davepermen]

oh okay, i've missread. well, cheap or not, space is a problem, too. if those chips aren't TINY TINY TINY then you can't have easily 2048 of those on a simple 2.5" (or 1.8") disk. that would be for a 128gb ssd, which i count as sweet spot.

even 512 of those (32gb) would not really fit onto a small disk

[Kamin_Majere]

Maybe it would fill the void that the Intel turbo Memory fills. If its 30 times faster and can get to even 4-8GB size then it would be a pretty good deal.

Pretty much an Instant on OS at that point

Still not memristors but getting better

See we need
16gb of PRAM for OS processes
60-256gb SSD for OS storage and applications
20TB of PMC for data storage

win for everyone

[davepermen]

or just memristors. espencially interesting once they get beyond storage usage. once intel and similar start to implement them into their cpu's, the cpu's can actually sort of shut down while computing something. i have no idea yet, but the people at intel, nvidia, etc are creative about using such technology in interesting ways to maybe reduce idle power usage to 10% of what they are now? maybe more? no clue. but the thought is interesting on how it could change everything in the long term. no device does have the need to be powered on to hold a state. that could change very much. together with e-paper we could have devices that use no power while nothing changes. and still are up and running at an instant.

we'll see, we'll see

[Tomy B.]

Samsung plans on starting PRAM production in June, with the first chips to come out of its 200mm line set to have a capacity of 512Mb and be aimed for mobile use.

Here it say it's 200 mm line, but I think it is 200 nm, so chips are probably "standard" dimensions. IMO they could fit 64 chips on one or two PCBs, which will fit in 2.5" SSDs, and that is equal to 4 GB of storage, and I think it is not bad at all.

Probably everyone remember video with 24 Samsung SSDs in RAID 0, right, and Samsung stated that new SSDs are up to 30 times faster, so it is like You have 30 SSDs in RAID 0.

Mmmmmmmmm, nice!!!

[davepermen]

jup, nice, but i couldn't even install a full os on it. still, nice, yes, i want.. just spread those chips all over the bottom of my notebook (and back of my screen). then, i can surely fit 2048 of those on my system

[Tomy B.]

Probably first SSDs weren't much bigger, but when production process come down to 70-80 nm it would be easy to make 2 Gb chips, so 4 of them is 1 GB, and 64 of them is 32 GB.

That would be perfect for me. Now I use 25 GB for Win XP, Office, all programs, mail and all documents. Just to say that 8 GB is movies and music and 2 GB for system restore.

[davepermen]

I'm more interested in it's performance characteristics, a.k.a. how's small random writes?

yeah 32gb works for living. but it's not "perfect". it's enough for starting real, that's all