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TB-Sized Solid State Drives Announced
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.
AFAIK all of these SSDs have a limited number of writes that can be performed before they start having bad "sectors" (dunno the flash memory name equivalent of a sector off the top of my head). I don't see any information on those sites, but I'd be interested in knowing - how long until they start to fail? At what rate will it fail (in other words, how long to go from say, 500GB to 0GB)? These drives are great, but if you drop that kind of coin and then they fail in a year... that would suck.
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You can always talk to a hardware leasing company. Check out TimePayment Corp, I met one of their salesmen at a conference recently and he said they do a lot of work setting up lease agreements for high end hardware.
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