[General] Samsung develops 256GB solid state drive

[bashar abdullah]

Good point majed. I was planning to wait a bit before getting a NAS
solution. But if it's 25 writes only, it's not worth the wait I guess.

Speaking of which, anyone know a good, quite NAS product?



On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:

> I read the news summary over /. and I found the last part funny:
> "A 256GB capacity is getting large enough to replace hard-drives for
> good — now just the prices just need to come down further for large
> capacity SSDs."
>
> They forgot something more important than price: Reliability!
> SSDs are like USB memory sticks, suffer from a major reliability issue
> which is the limited number of writes on a block. The article mentions
> no improvement on that side, so I'm assuming the recent figures still
> stand: 25 writes per block, and after that, *poof* the block is no
> longer usable.
>
> Even with smart controllers that distribute data randomly or
> selectively over blocks, people would want fast disks for fast
> operations, and most likely to read & write a lot, not just to "store
> fast," which means that the wear factor is very high.
>
> Unless they get another technology to replace the existing one causing
> such reliability issues, it's not worth the money, in my opinion.
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi
> <bashar at kuwaitnet.net> wrote:
> > i wonder how much it will cost if 64GB is 600ish-800ish
> >
> > http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9952007-1.html
> >
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