JonMack Posted February 10, 2008 Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 Yeah thats the only thing that sucks at the moment, the price to gb ratio is ridiculous, but sooner or later it will do the same as harddrives and drop like a lead balloon.Did anyone see that computer with the SSD Raid setup, it was awesome.http://www.nextlevelhardware.com/storage/battleship/There!4.5 hours oldddd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted February 10, 2008 Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 At the moment, having an SSD is not about how long it will last. It's about how big your eWang is.See? What kind of loser buys 9 hard drives worth a grand each, calls them the 'Battleship' and takes pictures to show off to a load of other losers on the internets? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted February 10, 2008 Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 (edited) They're a hardware test site AFAIK, but I don't think anyone would actually buy 9 of them in reality though so what's the point. It's definitely all about the eWang."You can purchase a 16GB Mobi Drive for $397, and this 32GB capacity drive that we are currently reviewing can be had for the same price as our 16GB Mtron Pro ($799) drive, but with double the capacity. Why such a large price difference between the Pro 16GB drive ($799) and the Mobi 16GB Drive ($379)?"So there we go, looking at about $800 for a 32GB drive."The Mtron Mobi only has a three year manufacturer warranty that is automatically void if you are caught using these drives in an enterprise/server setup. While the Mtron Professional line has a full 5 year manufacturer warranty completely valid in the enterprise market. The only characteristic difference is that the Mtron Pro is rated at 120 MB/s read, 90 MB/s write, and the Mtron Mobi is rated at 100 MB/s read, and 80 MB/s write."Three year warranty for the Mobi, and 5 years for the Professional, so pretty standard shelf life really. Edited February 10, 2008 by JonMack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 (edited) They're a hardware test site AFAIK, but I don't think anyone would actually buy 9 of them in reality though so what's the point.given the uncertainty inherent in fancy new bits and the limited lifespan on a SSD I'd probably be running several in raid for redundancy purposes. how does the data transfer rate compare to SAS (4 gb/s in certain configs I think) ? I'm still pretty confident that's the way to go for the next few years. Edited February 11, 2008 by poopipe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 given the uncertainty inherent in fancy new bits and the limited lifespan on a SSD I'd probably be running several in raid for redundancy purposes. how does the data transfer rate compare to SAS (4 gb/s in certain configs I think) ? I'm still pretty confident that's the way to go for the next few years.Yeah definitely, probably the only way to guarantee your data will be safe.According to Wiki SAS is upto 6.0 gb/s, I've no idea what it's like in comparison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/02...with_video.htmlThat's quite good to watch, showing the SSD model boots up about 20 seconds faster than the HDD model, and when opening a group apps for the first time round it can open them around 40 seconds faster.However, Upgrading from the Air's standard 80GB HDD to a 64GB SSD costs a steep $999. The biggest downside after cost is the drop in capacity. Formatted, the 64GB SSD has a capacity of 55.6GB. With the default software install, its ships with around 38 GB available. As Bare Feats notes, "If we reserve 8GB for Virtual Memory, that only leaves us 30GB for documents, tunes, movies, photos, and third party apps." Users who need more than that will have to stick with the standard conventional hard drive. In comparison, the 80GB HDD supplies 74.5GB formatted capacity, and with the pre-installed software offers roughly 55GB available to the user.Why is it that the SSD loses about 9GB over the stated size, and the HDD only loses 5.5, I know the about the whole a billion bytes thing thats why you lose some disc space over the quoted amount, but why with the SSD do you lose almost double as much? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONGO Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 bloody computer geeks...8 bit sega mastersystem any day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 According to Wiki SAS is upto 6.0 gb/s, I've no idea what it's like in comparison.The main advantage of SSDs is seek time though - which is something daft like 2ms instead of 30ms for a standard hard drive. Bongo is right though, this topic is too geeky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boswell Posted February 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 I could have foreseen how complex this topic would have got! I Just wanted to talk about memory stick pro duo's! I going to go now...... I hope your happy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 I could have foreseen how complex this topic would have got! I Just wanted to talk about memory stick pro duo's! I going to go now...... I hope your happy! I think memory sticks are lovely - i also think they cost twice as much as they should given they're just an SD/miniSD/microSD card in a different case Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Typical Sony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boswell Posted February 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Typical Sony We are all to blame for paying the radiculas prices! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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