Solid state drives available

[jojo]

Hope no-one objects. I was sent this advert and thought I'd share it. The capacity is a bit small but it's the sign of things to come. And not a moment too soon in my opinion.


www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?SAM-SSD30G


Samsung's Solid State Drive (SSD) is an advanced NAND flash-based solution for traditional storage, leveraging the company's longtime leadership in memory technology. This next-generation solution offers several advantages over rotating magnetic media such as significantly lower power consumption, remarkable ruggedness, high reliability, less weight and outstanding performance.

The SSD system is currently selling as an alternative high-end storage device for notebooks by many major PC manufacturers. The 64-gigabyte model surpasses a key storage threshold for business users; according to surveys, this is adequate storage for professionals. The SSD's weight is less than that of a conventional hard drive, thus further increasing easy system portability. The device also uses significantly less power. This gives users more battery life.

Samsung's Solid State Drive performance is greater than traditional storage. In addition, random search times are the faster on the SSD, which is not subject to fragmentation and maintains its performance over time.

As a non-volatile storage device, the SSD has no moving parts such as the motor, disks and heads of a hard drive. Thus it eliminates spin-up time, seek time and rotational latency while delivering sustained high-speed data transfers. The SSDs lack of moving parts makes it noise-free and its ultra-low power consumption virtually eliminates heat emissions.

The SSD is also highly rugged, standing up to shock and vibration. These performance features make it well suited to a broad range of users. These include "road warrior" business professionals, as well as those in demanding military and industrial areas. Samsung designed the SSD's footprint to be interchangeable with a hard disk drive. Furthermore, because the SSD is form-factor agnostic, the flash components can be arranged to meet virtually any size or shape configurations.

[lazysod]

Oh doesn't it sound so good :)It is just a pity the price is so high I suppose in time they will be affordable. I liked the look of the EeePC because of its solid state drive but the bigger solid state drives are extortionate just now.

[mikkh]

Yes it sounds great - as it would from the manufacturer, but an independent review I read rated it's two big selling points (speed and power saving) as not that big an improvement on currently used technology. In fact it was worse in some situations

There's no doubt it's the future, but the current prices are still way too high

This wasn't the one I read, but it has similar findings

www.tomshardware.com/reviews/flash-ssd-hard-drive,2000-19.html

... and coincidentally rates Samsung as the best

[jojo]

I wouldn't buy one just now to be honest. Price, capacity, speed are three important considerations.

However, we all know that with any new technology in the last 30 years, imporvements come very quickly.

We had a short discussion on solid state drives on the old CIT. That is why I posted this here.

To my mind the big, very big advantage of solid state is the lack of moving parts means it's unlikely to suffer the sort of damage that a mechanic HD is prone to.

I am surely not the only one to lose huge amounts of data, some quite valuable, some very sentimental, most irreplacable when the mechanics of a HD went to crunch.