Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Alienware Puts 64GB Solid-State Drives In Desktops

Posted by kdawson on from the what's-that-spinning-noise dept.

Lucas123 writes "In the face of Seagate's announcement this week of a new hybrid drive, Dell subsidiary Alienware just upped the ante by doubling the capacity of its desktop solid-state disk drives to 64 GB. Dell has remained silent on the solid-state disk front since announcing a 32-GB solid-state option for its Latitude D420 and D629 ATG notebook computers earlier this year. Now, Alienware seems to be telling users to bypass hybrid drives altogether. 'Hybrid we consider to be a Band-Aid approach to solid state,' said Marc Diana, Alienware's product marketing manager 'Solid state pretty much puts hybrid in an obsolete class right now.'"

2 of 235 comments (clear)

  1. Re:many write cycles? by suv4x4 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Most flash controllers remap the sectors on the fly to ensure that the memory is not worn down prematurely. So if you rewrite the same logical sector 5 times over, a chance exists that you'll get 5 different physical sectors.

    Yup, it also means, if one single sector is faulty, the controller will keep putting more and more different information on it and getting it wrong, potentially ruining a big chunk of your data :)

    Hiiiiiilarious :)

  2. Re:many write cycles? by suv4x4 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I pondered mentioning checksums, so it's obvious I'm just kidding, but I hate being obvious. I love the angry answers though.

    It's almost as if someone's life is hanging by a thread should I potentially discredit Flash memory on Slashdot.