http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/11/pqis-64...ata-connector-a-worlds-first-twice/

freaking finally!!!! this is what I want. SATA 1.5GB transfer on a solid state drive. this means you can just replace the drive on newer laptops when the price of these comes down and blamo, faster access, better battery life, etc...

NICE!

toshiba is already making laptops with their 30GB flash memory drive. theyre up in the 2 grand range and aren't worth the price for just the drive yet but i cant wait until these make their way to the desktop market.

Again though... isn't the write speed to flash media really slow? Slower than HDD's?

no

"A solid state disk (SSD) is electrically, mechanically and software compatible with a conventional (magnetic) hard disk or winchester. The difference is that the storage medium is not magnetic (like a hard disk) or optical (like a CD) but solid state semiconductor such as battery backed RAM, EPROM or other electrically erasable RAMlike chip. This provides faster access time than a disk, because the data can be randomly accessed and does not rely on a read/write interface head synchronising with a rotating disk. The SSD also provides greater physical resilience to physical vibration, shock and extreme temperature fluctuations. The only downside is a higher cost per megabyte of storage."

show off :P

I know read times are generally pretty good, but every time I've ever written to or erased from flash media, it's been painfully slow. I suppose there must be different kinds of flash chips, though.

usb 1.0?

actually the one he got has semi slow read/write time which is confusing

SSD's can handle 300G's while running. HDS with advance fall protection can handle 60G's.

there are plenty of SSDs out there. seagate's is going to be under $600 for 30gbs.

Flash memory is usually limited but the speed on your interface. USB 2.0 or 32-bit PCMCIA get a max of 20Mb/s out of flash.

if you had read the article, you would realize that the main point is this:
"But these drives are also the world's first to sport SATA"
SSD with a SATA interface. that's the deal. that's the bit thing. SSD in a laptop *yawn* it's been done, but swapping a 10ms latency with something that's got 100x better latency and seak time? something that cna put 1.5GB/s? sign me up.

the_reverend said:

I ain't readin' shit niggah!

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/a-data-...d-crazy-shows-off-128gb-2-5-incher/

holy cow!!!! a 2.5" 128GB SSD with a SATA II interface, a 1.8" 64GB and a 32GB 32mm express card? the future is now!