Yeah, I notice at the end costs were not mentioned...
Submitted by babychaos on Thu, 2009-03-12 11:48
We chuckle at costs now but we're all aware of the frighening (or delighful) rates at which technology progresses. I'd imagine that the SSDs are getting not far from the maximum bus speeds.
Submitted by brainwipe on Thu, 2009-03-12 11:50
There is also a large dollop of marketing misdirection here
the speed isn't really coming from the drives it's the large number in parallel. You can easily saturate the sata bus with raid and some sufficiently fast mechanical drives (a couple of velociraptor for instance, hell one on it's own comes close at peak) once you reach saturation point (using the full capacity of the bus) it's just an exercise it cross wiring blocks of those in parallel to gain more performance. Till you max the pci-express bus.
Submitted by Evilmatt on Thu, 2009-03-12 11:57
32 gig cost £215.10 they quote 6TB with 24
that means they are using 256gb drives
those are not even available yet I don't think but the current suggested price is 600 quid mark
so for your raid array you are looking at £14400 for the drive they might throw in the rest of the computer for that sort of money
Submitted by Evilmatt on Thu, 2009-03-12 12:01
these SSD are quoted with a sequential read speed of 200MB/s (though no one has tested one that I can find so that might be bollocks)
so some way to go before they max the bus
Submitted by Evilmatt on Thu, 2009-03-12 12:07
All interesting stats... what about power?
Submitted by brainwipe on Thu, 2009-03-12 13:26
samsung quote 1.5w in active use vs standard 2.5" drive is about 2w velociraptor is 6w
the idle use is better since if it's not needed it's almost off but still you need a lot of these to replicate the same sized magnetic disk some it's something of a false economy at the moment
Submitted by Evilmatt on Thu, 2009-03-12 13:48
those are not even available yet I don't think but the current suggested price is 600 quid mark
OCZ are selling them at that size for £550ish, so I'd guess Samsung's will be in the same ballpark when they appear, yes.
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costs 2GigaPounds
Yep, and the rest.
Yeah, I notice at the end costs were not mentioned...
We chuckle at costs now but we're all aware of the frighening (or delighful) rates at which technology progresses. I'd imagine that the SSDs are getting not far from the maximum bus speeds.
There is also a large dollop of marketing misdirection here
the speed isn't really coming from the drives it's the large number in parallel. You can easily saturate the sata bus with raid and some sufficiently fast mechanical drives (a couple of velociraptor for instance, hell one on it's own comes close at peak) once you reach saturation point (using the full capacity of the bus) it's just an exercise it cross wiring blocks of those in parallel to gain more performance. Till you max the pci-express bus.
32 gig cost £215.10 they quote 6TB with 24
that means they are using 256gb drives
those are not even available yet I don't think but the current suggested price is 600 quid mark
so for your raid array you are looking at £14400 for the drive they might throw in the rest of the computer for that sort of money
these SSD are quoted with a sequential read speed of 200MB/s (though no one has tested one that I can find so that might be bollocks)
so some way to go before they max the bus
All interesting stats... what about power?
samsung quote 1.5w in active use vs standard 2.5" drive is about 2w velociraptor is 6w
the idle use is better since if it's not needed it's almost off but still you need a lot of these to replicate the same sized magnetic disk some it's something of a false economy at the moment
those are not even available yet I don't think but the current suggested price is 600 quid mark
OCZ are selling them at that size for £550ish, so I'd guess Samsung's will be in the same ballpark when they appear, yes.
so a scant £13200 then :D
At that price, I'll take two!