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

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...

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

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

yeah, thats just what I was thinking

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 there was suppose to be a big push with the launch of Vista for drives that are half solid state and half platter based?

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.

Quote from: knightyyeah, thats just what I was thinking

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.

did they put out a sata version.... last time i looked they were only IDE.... but it was a long time ago

andy, the point to them is, they (shoult) be fast.... really really fast

Its still IDE afaik.