[General] Samsung develops 256GB solid state drive

[bashar abdullah]

Thanks Burhan, seems interesting

I have read some reviews though and some say it's noisy, and unreliable
sometimes. Sadly, most external drive solutions have had bad reviews.

Read this one:
http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B000PDLZ1A/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar

Have you personally tried it?


On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Burhan Khalid <burhan at kuwaitnet.net> wrote:

> 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
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