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Largest SSD available?
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Basically yes. The best SSD on the market at the moment, however, is the 80GB X25-M. Intel will be releasing a 160GB variant early next year though.
True.You can buy 256GB Solid State Drives in a 2.5" form factor, however you are not going to like the price
In the next few years, I am guessing that we are going to see a large increase in SSD drives. So many devices being created that could use them.
How about largest SSD, regardless of price? In both 2.5 and 3.5"... how does the speed actually compare to a 15k 3.5" drive, actually?
No mechanical parts, lower power, and faster while also emitting less heat. In other words they are less prone to failure.
The benefit current spinning harddrives have over solid state disks are price per gigabyte and capacity.
Vastly lower latency... you don't have to wait for the heads to move or for the disk to rotate to the point where the data you're looking for starts.
This translates to much faster random performance. The OS boots faster, applications load faster, and copying of directories with lots of small files (think backups) is faster.
So far, sustained data transfer doesn't show the same difference.
The biggest is 1.6tb if you google it (best thing invented). If you don't believe me check this website.
http://gizmodo.com/352839/16tb-ssd-is-largest-flash-drive-yet-you-definitely-cant-afford-it
Regards
Jonathan
http://gizmodo.com/352839/16tb-ssd-is-largest-flash-drive-yet-you-definitely-cant-afford-it
Regards
Jonathan
On of the posts suggests the 1.6tb would be in the region of £20,000 thats a new car wtf anyone want one ?.
I think that's actually still up for debate. it was originally thought to help with battery life, but someone a few months ago (sorry for the lack of links, but im pretty sure it was on MR) did some tests and it turned out false.
Tom's Hardware did a big review on SSD drives.
Original Article
Follow Up
Second Follow Up
They later reviewed Intel's 80GB X25-M SSD drive and found it to be pretty darned good in comparison.
the prices of SSDs are coming down gradually. At some point they will be cheaper/comparable to spinning disks and then everyone with have one. The biggest advantage is that they don't fail after a few years like standard drives do.
As for that 1.6TB SSD drive. Given current prices you could be looking at $25000 for it!
As for that 1.6TB SSD drive. Given current prices you could be looking at $25000 for it!
the prices of SSDs are coming down gradually. At some point they will be cheaper/comparable to spinning disks and then everyone with have one. The biggest advantage is that they don't fail after a few years like standard drives do.
As for that 1.6TB SSD drive. Given current prices you could be looking at $25000 for it!
$16000. The price per GB for most SSDs are 10$/gb at the moment. I doubt that drive is SLC.