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Solid State Drives in Notebooks?

Posted by Cliff on from the don't-you-wish-you-could-build-your-own-laptop dept.

spenney asks: "It seems like the most problematic part of any notebook is the speed of the hard drive (and they also get noisy). I noticed this site selling 2.5" solid state disks (SSDs). Anybody currently using one of these in a notebook? I can't find pricing anywhere, but they've gotta cost a fortune." How long do you think it will be before the major laptop manufacturers start adopting this technology?

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  1. Server Market by Hungus · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I know in the application I am currently developing these would be of a signifigant help. Right now I am looking at sustained wriiting in the order of 14MBs-1 then another 20MBs-1 in reads. As this is a medical application and every transaction has to be recorded potentially forever ( or 120 years whichever comes first :) ) ( also means we cant use ram to cache the database)
    One issue wil be total cost though. Currently we estimate the need for 4 clusters of drives.

    1 X 42TB cluster and

    3 X 28TB clusters.

    At $1 per MB those are some signifigant numbers.
    126 million dollars in arrays. vs something like an X Raid at $6038 TB-1 or a total of 761 thousand. There is a cost factor difference of 165.

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  2. Have 1GB Sandisk FlashDrive. Silence is wonderful! by oakwood · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have a 1GB Sandisk FlashDrive in this notebook. It a type3 PCCard in a metal frame that has a 3.5" IDE form factor, so it fits instead of the hard drive. It is wonderful.

    I do have to be careful about space and it is a little slow. Very important to defrag regularly, speed drops greatly with fragmentation. I'm using Win98 to save space. Unfortunately, it will not run with Win's Virtual Memory set low or to zero. It can be tricky to format the drive.

    Love the silence.

    http://www.sandisk.com/oem/flashdrive.asp