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Comments on: pureSilicon unveils 1TB solid state drive

Wasn't expecting that to appear so soon. 

Posted Monday 12th January 2009 13:53 GMT

And in a 2.5" form factor too? Impressive.

The rate of capacity increase on SSDs is crazy, only seems like a few years ago that a 1 gb usb drive was considered really impressive, never mind 1 tb.

There is the crippling expense to consider, but I remember looking up the price of a 4 gig drive about 5-6 years ago, and it was in the 4-figure range in dollars, so fingers crossed for a similar price adjustment on the new high-end of SSD tech.

Whoa... 

Posted Monday 12th January 2009 14:00 GMT

Thumb Up

1TB 2.5 SSD?

Whoa...

Question 

Posted Monday 12th January 2009 14:44 GMT

Joke

Will it fit in my Eee PC901??

You know that it 

Posted Monday 12th January 2009 17:05 GMT

Happy

will cost it's own weight in gold-plated uranium encrusted diamonds however

hmm 

Posted Monday 12th January 2009 18:35 GMT

JBOD of 1024 of these suckers wouldn't take up that much room either...

We're almost to the single-rack petabyte.

Crap I'm old. I still remember the first single-rack gigabyte JBOD we put together.

What's the cost of the electricity you save? 

Posted Monday 12th January 2009 18:50 GMT

And how much money would you have to borrow a year such that this is interest at 5%?

My suspicion is that they don't cost much more in the long run.

Take for a spin? 

Posted Monday 12th January 2009 20:44 GMT

Coat

Bit hard to take it for a spin, what with it not having platters n all.

Mines the one playing "you spin me round round baby right round like a record baby round round round round"

Flash RAID please 

Posted Tuesday 13th January 2009 06:34 GMT

I want someone to come up with a way to RAID USB flash drives through hardware or software for Windows machines, with reasonably fast (12MB/s write, 30MB/s read) 16GB sticks available at £16 delivered from play.com, you could potentially create a reasonably high capacity very fast & silent 'drive' for £1 per GB + needed hardware.

I know you can software RAID USB flash drives on linux but that's not so useful to all the Windows users out there.

BitMicro 

Posted Tuesday 13th January 2009 11:47 GMT

I thought BitMicro had 1.6Tb out last year

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/05/bitmicro-keeps-it-real-unveils-1-6tb-ultra320-scsi-ssd/