[General] Samsung develops 256GB solid state drive

[Burhan Khalid]

bashar abdullah wrote:
> Something not less than 1 TB.

My personal recommendation is to get a drobo with the drobo share addon 
(for gigabit ethernet).

http://www.drobo.com/products_droboshare.html

> 
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Burhan Khalid <burhan at kuwaitnet.net 
> <mailto:burhan at kuwaitnet.net>> wrote:
> 
>     bashar abdullah wrote:
> 
>         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.
> 
> 
>     Uh, it bears mentioning here that not all devices are created the
>     same, just like all disk drives don't have the same MTBF.
> 
>     There are devices available with more than 100,000 write cycles.
>     Also, these disks have tech in them that makes sure you are not
>     burning out one sector all the time -- a process called "wear leveling".
> 
>     Finally in case you have this notion that slapping a SSD in your
>     laptop will somehow inject it with turbo powers to make Vista
>     actually run fast -- then it bears keeping in mind that not all
>     devices have the same read/write speeds.
> 
> 
> 
>         Speaking of which, anyone know a good, quite NAS product?
> 
> 
>     What capacity?
> 
> 
> 
> 
>         On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com
>         <mailto:majedb at gmail.com> <mailto:majedb at gmail.com
>         <mailto: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 <mailto:bashar at kuwaitnet.net>
>         <mailto:bashar at kuwaitnet.net <mailto: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
>             >
>             > _______________________________________________
>             > General mailing list
>             > General at oskw.org <mailto:General at oskw.org>
>         <mailto:General at oskw.org <mailto:General at oskw.org>>
> 
>             > http://mail.oskw.org/mailman/listinfo/general_oskw.org
>             >
>             >
> 
> 
> 
>            --
>             Majed B.
>            _______________________________________________
>            General mailing list
>            General at oskw.org <mailto:General at oskw.org>
>         <mailto:General at oskw.org <mailto:General at oskw.org>>
> 
>            http://mail.oskw.org/mailman/listinfo/general_oskw.org
> 
> 
> 
>         ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
>         _______________________________________________
>         General mailing list
>         General at oskw.org <mailto:General at oskw.org>
>         http://mail.oskw.org/mailman/listinfo/general_oskw.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     _______________________________________________
>     General mailing list
>     General at oskw.org <mailto:General at oskw.org>
>     http://mail.oskw.org/mailman/listinfo/general_oskw.org
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> _______________________________________________
> General mailing list
> General at oskw.org
> http://mail.oskw.org/mailman/listinfo/general_oskw.org


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 3262 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
URL: <http://oskw.org/pipermail/general_oskw.org/attachments/20080527/ccd4755a/attachment.bin>