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Samsung Mass Produces Fast 256GB SSDs
Lucas123 writes "Samsung said it's now mass producing a 256GB solid state disk that it says has sequential read/write rates of 220MB/sec and 200/MBsec, respectively. Samsung said it focused on narrowing the disparity of read/write rates on its SSD drive with this model by interleaving NAND flash chips using eight channels, the same way Intel boosts its X25 SSD. The drive doubles the performance of Samsung's previous 64GB and 128GB SSDs. 'The 256GB SSD launches applications 10 times faster than the fastest 7200rpm notebook HDD,' Samsung said in a statement."
Damn -- How can I bitch about how expensive it is when they won't even tell me!
Caveat Utilitor
The spinning disc is slowly beginning to wind its way down.
This guy's the limit!
Why? You're not using it anyway.
My left nut is an unreasonable price.
"don't worry, son, that's why God gave you two."
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
My left nut is an unreasonable price.
"don't worry, son, that's why God gave you two."
Two left nuts? Isn't that the cure for two left feet?
It isn't dead until Netcraft confirms it.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
W O W
I never thought a Single Sided Disc (SSD)
would ever be able to hold so much data . . .
We are Dead Stars looking back Up at the Sky
Yeah, it'll be 1 to 3 organs, depending on demand. Demand for soft organs is red-hot right now, so it's pretty well sure to be a triple-donation. Probably the usual combo: eyeball, kidney, testicle. If they want bone, they'll take an arm or a leg, but we haven't done a limb-cut in days.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
If a 256GB SSD drive is only 256 million bytes, I'm a lot more concerned about the missing factor of ~1000 than the binary/decimal notation.
1 TB of SSD today = 17 * $150 = $2,550.
1 TB conventional storage = $95.
SSDs are still over 25 times as expensive. They will improve quickly, but they need to hit a moving target to kill conventional drives.
A perfect choice for RAVED - Redundant Array of Very Expensive Disks.
I am anarch of all I survey.
You've been watching Lexx lately haven't you. Next thing you'll know, you'll start referring to His Great Shadow every third sentence.
His Divine Shadow, but who's counting?
No beer, no TV make Lifthrasir something something
If you need only 64 GB of storage, as most handhelds, laptops, and desktops do
My laptop has a 250GB drive that's almost full with work files. I haven't had less than a few hundred GB of storage on a desktop for almost a decade.
Hell, even my iPod is 80GB, and almost full.
Are you from the past?
No fans? Do you want some roasted nuts? :P
Here is a Mil-Spec approved permanent SSD erasure device: http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/hammer-1.jpg
What about RAPED? That seems more appropriate...
(Reduntant Array of Patently Expensive Disks)
How about Redundant Array of Pretty Expensive Disks (RAPED). "We got RAPED for disks in this purchase order!". AFAIK, it's the only configuration IBM sells.