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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.'"

13 of 235 comments (clear)

  1. Crash recovery by monk.e.boy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn this is going to make crash recovery a nightmare. When my hard drive crashed I was able to read the data off by opening it up and using a magnifying glass, pen and paper. Using my notes and a typewriter I soon had my old drive data mirrored onto my new drive.

    Is it possible to do this with a solid state drive?

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    1. Re:Crash recovery by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yes, but you can skip the typewriter step - just use a pin directly on the new drive to poke your 0s (unpoked is 1)

  2. The School of Hard Knocks by User+956 · · Score: 4, Funny

    'Solid state pretty much puts hybrid in an obsolete class right now.'

    Yes, well, as a graduate of Solid State, I'm really getting a kick out of his reply.

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    The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
    1. Re:The School of Hard Knocks by TubeSteak · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, well, as a graduate of Solid State, I'm really getting a kick out of his reply. As a graduate of Quantum State, I may or may not be getting a kick out of your reply.
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      [Fuck Beta]
      o0t!
    2. Re:The School of Hard Knocks by thegnu · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, well, as a graduate of Solid State, I'm really getting a kick out of his reply.

      As a graduate of Quantum State, I may or may not be getting a kick out of your reply.

      And I, as a graduate of String State, am inventing 7 new dimensions to account for humor.
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      Please stop stalking me, bro.
    3. Re:The School of Hard Knocks by Misch · · Score: 2, Funny

      You could look at his transcripts, but when you observe them, you might change them.

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      --You will rephrase your request for me to go to hell. Goto statements are not acceptable programming constructs
    4. Re:The School of Hard Knocks by pragma_x · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes, well, as a graduate of Solid State, I'm really getting a kick out of his reply.

      As a graduate of Quantum State, I may or may not be getting a kick out of your reply.

      And I, as a graduate of String State, am inventing 7 new dimensions to account for humor.

      As a graduate of Quaker State, I found your comment rather slick.
    5. Re:The School of Hard Knocks by Alt_Cognito · · Score: 1, Funny

      As a graduate of Failed State, I fail to add anything useful to the conversation. /to hell with karma!

    6. Re:The School of Hard Knocks by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 4, Funny

      As a current student at Drunken State I have no idea what any of you are talking about but PARTY ON!

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      It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
    7. Re:The School of Hard Knocks by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 2, Funny

      This overextended joke is in a sad state.

    8. Re:The School of Hard Knocks by jetpack · · Score: 3, Funny

      As a graduate of Over State, I happen to appreciate the length of this joke.

    9. Re:The School of Hard Knocks by CopaceticOpus · · Score: 3, Funny

      The graduate of Solid State is getting a kick out the original reply, and the Quantum State grad may or may not be getting a kick out of that. The String State guy is theorizing about humor, which the graduate from Quaker State thinks is quite slick. The Drunken State grad doesn't quite follow all this but seems happy enough. Some might say this has all reached a sad state of affairs, but the gentleman from Over State begs to differ.

      Me? I'm a Re State graduate, but you probably already guessed that.

  3. Re:what does it do to load times? by babyrat · · Score: 2, Funny

    enable faster reboot

    you must be running windows...