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Title: Samsung 16GB MC8DE16G5APP-0XA00 2.5" IDE Solid State HardDrive
Post by: knighty on August 21, 2007, 00:38:30 AM
http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=607520

just about to order a gigabit network card and a 500gig drive to upgrade my network storage box and saw this... tis tempting !

its comething Ive been intrested in for a while :o
Title: Samsung 16GB MC8DE16G5APP-0XA00 2.5" IDE Solid State HardDrive
Post by: knighty on August 21, 2007, 00:42:58 AM
and heres a 32gig version http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?SAM-SS32GB

(bit pricy now tho...)

guess i need to benchmark my raid and see how it does... these run at 56MB/s read, 32MB/s write speeds

but with no seek time etc...
Title: Samsung 16GB MC8DE16G5APP-0XA00 2.5" IDE Solid State HardDrive
Post by: knighty on August 21, 2007, 00:43:20 AM
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/113200/samsung-flash-solid-state-disk.html

"wed be inclined to wait for 64GB SATA versions to appear later in the year"

oki-doki ;)
Title: Samsung 16GB MC8DE16G5APP-0XA00 2.5" IDE Solid State HardDrive
Post by: Cheule on August 21, 2007, 07:43:37 AM
What happened to those Mram chips from a few years back? The review on this drive isnt very flattering considering even 5,400rpm drives were outpacing it in real-world tasks! :0
Title: Samsung 16GB MC8DE16G5APP-0XA00 2.5" IDE Solid State HardDrive
Post by: knighty on August 21, 2007, 08:48:20 AM
yeah, thats just what I was thinking :o

do you mean the gigabyte I-Ram ?

not sure what happend to them.... theyre too small / expensive for home users I think.... 8gig max... and you have to pay £150 for it... and then buy the 8gig of ram to go in it !
Title: Re:Samsung 16GB MC8DE16G5APP-0XA00 2.5" IDE Solid State HardDrive
Post by: Kunal on August 21, 2007, 10:26:04 AM
I thought there was suppose to be a big push with the launch of Vista for drives that are half solid state and half platter based?
Title: Re:Samsung 16GB MC8DE16G5APP-0XA00 2.5" IDE Solid State HardDrive
Post by: mr_roll on August 21, 2007, 19:08:14 PM
Why would home users need solid state hard drives ? surely itd be for those people who like to vibrate their computers greatly... so laptop users and the army maybe ? or runners... but in home computers that sit on desks I cant see an advantage.

You may argue that its more reliable, but Ive got a 40GB maxtor HDD in my computer that has been running windows for many many years and its never broken down.
Title: Samsung 16GB MC8DE16G5APP-0XA00 2.5" IDE Solid State HardDrive
Post by: Pete on August 21, 2007, 19:15:30 PM
Quote from: knightyyeah, thats just what I was thinking :o

do you mean the gigabyte I-Ram ?

not sure what happend to them.... theyre too small / expensive for home users I think.... 8gig max... and you have to pay £150 for it... and then buy the 8gig of ram to go in it !

I thought the limit at the time was the SATA(iirc?) bus speed.
Title: Samsung 16GB MC8DE16G5APP-0XA00 2.5" IDE Solid State HardDrive
Post by: knighty on August 21, 2007, 19:51:28 PM
did they put out a sata version.... last time i looked they were only IDE.... but it was a long time ago :o

andy, the point to them is, they (shoult) be fast.... really really fast :o
Title: Re:Samsung 16GB MC8DE16G5APP-0XA00 2.5" IDE Solid State HardDrive
Post by: Cypher on August 23, 2007, 09:42:23 AM
Its still IDE afaik.