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TB-Sized Solid State Drives Announced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the soon-to-be-implantable dept.

prostoalex writes "Several companies have announced solid state hard drives in excess of one terrabyte in size. ComputerWorld describes one from BitMicro that's just 3.5". Their flash drive will support up to 4 Gbps data transfer rate. From the article: 'SSDs access data in microseconds, instead of the millliseconds that traditional hard drives use to retrieve data. The BitMicro E-Disk Altima 4Gb FC delivers more than 55,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS) and has a sustained data transfer rate over 230MB/sec. By comparison, a fast hard drive for example will run at around 300 IOPS.'" Ah, the speed of tech. Seems like only last month we were talking about 500GB drives.

2 of 130 comments (clear)

  1. Hick by Jeppe+Utzon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One terrabyte is a heck of a lot brown stuff. I wonder if I risk data loss if it gets infected by earth worms? I hear they are nasty little fuckers...

  2. Re:In other news by lsllll · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, but what they don't tell you is if it's compatible with MS-DOS 3.3. It might as well be a paperweight if I can't get my DOS games to load faster.

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