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Toshiba Developing High-Density 1TB SSD
MojoKid writes "A new partnership between Toshiba and Tokyo's Keio University has led to the creation of a new technology that could allow SSDs up to 1TB in size to be made 'with a footprint no larger than a postage stamp.' The report states that the two have been able to integrate 128GB NAND Flash chips and a single controller into a stamp-sized form factor. They've even made it operational with a transfer rates of 2Gbps (or about 250MB/sec) with data transfer that relies on radio communication."
Whereas mine ran for 3 years until I replaced the whole device.
Aren't anecdotes great!
Apparently a company called Data Recovery Services claim the ability to recover lost data in SSD format. Not sure how they do it exactly, but I imagine it involving some de-soldering of chips and replacement of new parts on the PCB.
They've managed to provide a writeup of their claims here.
http://www.datarecovery.net/solid-state-drive-recovery.html
Life is not for the lazy.
Stamp-sized chips storing the contents of multiple libraries, fully downloadable over short-range radio transfer in roughly an hour.
Listen to us complaining that we don't have flying cars yet. :P
It's the understanding I've always had from a few places.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/kingston-ssdnow-ssd,review-31805.html
"Tony Chen: More precisely, when you reach the mean time of a drive—its data endurance—it’s not really a fail. It's not like the data is no longer there or the format has vanished. It just becomes read-only at the end of its life."