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Toshiba Introduces MacBook Air 'Blade-Type' SSDs to Mass Market
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What do you think the chances are that Apple will pull a 180 and implement these in their upcoming iPad release? It would strengthen their competition against netbooks, which generally have larger hard drives. It certainly would blow away the current and upcoming tablet market, which range from 16-64 gigs of storage
"everything we learned from the Air...which we subsequently learned from the original iPad...has brought us here"
thoughts?
What do you think the chances are that Apple will pull a 180 and implement these in their upcoming iPad release? It would strengthen their competition against netbooks, which generally have larger hard drives. It certainly would blow away the current and upcoming tablet market, which range from 16-64 gigs of storage
"everything we learned from the Air...which we subsequently learned from the original iPad...has brought us here"
thoughts?
well they are still using 32GB individuals modules to make these 'blade SSD's..so until 64GB modules becomes cheaper an upgrade to a higher capacity in smaller electronics will take some time, this is the reason we still don't have a 64GB iPhone...
I would like to see a method to plug in (like a USB flash drive) one of these for external back-up at a reasonable price. Backing up over 200 GB of photos and video to DL_DVDs is just not practical due to the sheer volume of discs required.
"No pricing has been announced for devices. " Get back to us when the prices are available.
I would not mind these going in the next MacBook Pro's as long as they replace the missing space with more batteries
I wouldn't mind if they have 512GB or higher available. I'm expecting MacBook Pros to have 1T available soon, 256GB would be too little for a person who wants to edit video on their 15" or 17" MBP.
I would not mind these going in the next MacBook Pro's as long as they replace the missing space with more batteries
I want so see these blade type SSD integrated into the next update for the MacBook Pros. With the space it going to save, more battery life, and more card slots for this SSD. Think about the size, you could fit four of these SSD into a Macbook Pro. It would give us MBP guys a boost in storage and the ability to run along side the iMac in storage. A 1TB of MacBook SSD storage.
It would be more or less of a RAID setup. But it would be worth buying.
No one would/should be editing video straight from the computer. I'd suggest most (except the Joe iMovie goer) would have externals hooked up by Firewire to hold the footage.
If we lost the OD though, a second 'Blade' could easily emerge to give us the best of both worlds!
Die OD, die!
defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser EnableODiskBrowsing -bool true
defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser ODSSupported -bool tru
These so-called "blades" have been growing for some time. Runcore makes some fast ones going back a few years.
Growing length of "blades" is nothing new.
Yeah, my 2008 - Dell Mini 9 has a 16GB "blade"
Apple's whole "we took it out of the case" thing is just a bunch of B.S. It's nothing new.
Great news for those of us interested in the 11" MBA but need more "disk" space than you can get from Apple today in a BTO configuration.
Apropos of nothin': When do we officially stop calling it "disk" space?
Apropos of nothin': When do we officially stop calling it "disk" space?
That would be great, except for the tiny little fact that you couldn't give me a Dell Mini 9!
But the rate of taper is greater on the smaller model. The SSD card is not at the back so there is less thickness where the SSD is on the 11"
Yup, my 11" MBA is my secondary computer. Size and weight out weighed raw performance.
Whats with people wanting ultra portable desktop replacements (at netbook prices nonetheless)?
Do people really need dual-proc laptops? What are you doing, rendering 3D movies, doing FEA or Fluid dynamics while sitting at Starbucks?
I had disc space anxiety before buying my MBA, but I checked the disc usage on my old laptop and saw I wasn't really using any space. The biggest usage was movies and music I had stored, but I never listen to music on the laptop since I just use my iphone. With music/movies removed, I was way under the 128gb I have on my MBA (I actually can live with the base 64gb)
Don't you worry baby doll, we'll have 2x256GB RAID0 on the new MBP
Yeah, I figured. I'm in the process of deciding whether or not to get a maxed out MBA or wait for the MBP release after the next, since that will be the redesign. Not sure if I can wait that long though.
What I really want is someone <Points at OCZ> to release some faster ones, with 512GB capacity. That I'd buy
Somehow, I don't think so
Gulp!
Currently when most laptops use HDD I can see that. I'm thinking about the future: if you had an SSD RAID array in your MBP then why wouldn't you be able to take your laptop with you and edit on site, your storage would be faster and more reliable than HDD based laptops. You could have a lighter set of equipment to carry with you, then backup your project to external drives later on when shooting is done.
Of course if you don't plan to edit on site or like bringing external drives along, then it doesn't matter.
My point is that I am sure some would like more than 512GB on a MBP and SSD would be safer than a huge HDD.
I wish we knew 100% if the 11" could be upgraded to 256gb, I would buy it today, i need the space and that is stopping me from the purchase, I already have a 13" macbook so there really is no need to buy a 13" macbook air, But if I could get 256gb internal on the 11, I would be at Apple today
Check the link on weckart's post above:
OCZ 480GB Vertex 2E SSD - Solid State Drive (scan.co.uk): £1,330.92 = approx. US$2,150!!!
And that's in a 2.5" drive-shaped form factor!
Edit: BTW, if you can afford that kind of jack on a pair of SSDs, OWC makes a caddy that replaces the optical drive with a 2.5" SATA drive bracket: OWC "Data Doubler" bracket (macsales.com)
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Check the link on weckart's post above:
OCZ 480GB Vertex 2E SSD - Solid State Drive (scan.co.uk): £1,330.92 = approx. US$2,150!!!
And that's in a 2.5" drive-shaped form factor!
Edit: BTW, if you can afford that kind of jack on a pair of SSDs, OWC makes a caddy that replaces the optical drive with a 2.5" SATA drive bracket: OWC "Data Doubler" bracket (macsales.com)
or you can just buy a cheap caddy on ebay for $10 to $20 bucks.
see forums
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/680228/
...OCZ 480GB Vertex 2E SSD - Solid State Drive (scan.co.uk): £1,330.92 = approx. US$2,150!!!
And that's in a 2.5" drive-shaped form factor!
Again, I'm looking toward the future where SSD drives won't cost so much. I'm about to buy a MBP and as much as I'd love to go with SSD I am not doing it, at least not now and not using Apple's SSD options ($1,170 to get 512 and that is with a discount
) I'll be sticking with a HDD and external drives for video storage.The MacBook Air's SSD options are only the beginning.
I like the idea of standardizing a "netbook" form factor for SSD drives. My previously hackintosh Dell Mini 9 used some weird card size only usable in the Mini 9.
This should be fine for netbook manufacturers and users. They're not the fastest SSDs in the market, by a long shot, but will be great for netbook users of other makes.
This should be fine for netbook manufacturers and users. They're not the fastest SSDs in the market, by a long shot, but will be great for netbook users of other makes.
So how long will it take for the price of these solid state storage devices to drop to current hard drive prices? Is a $99 TB or even $500GB flash storage drive more than 5 years away?
Also I see many people talking about taking extra space and using it for battery. I would like to see more storage capacity in a laptop. Being able to store terabytes of movie, music and photo data on one laptop (with equal storage capacity in the time machine backup) would be great. I'm archiving old family movies and photos and looking at the necessity of using external drives. It would be nice to have everything in the laptop. Of course I'm looking ahead to the day when this is more affordable.
Also I see many people talking about taking extra space and using it for battery. I would like to see more storage capacity in a laptop. Being able to store terabytes of movie, music and photo data on one laptop (with equal storage capacity in the time machine backup) would be great. I'm archiving old family movies and photos and looking at the necessity of using external drives. It would be nice to have everything in the laptop. Of course I'm looking ahead to the day when this is more affordable.
No, the thought to look for that (laptop SSD RAID 0) never crossed my mind. But that is amazing.
It probably has mitigated them. The 20%, is I think, talking about SSD's prior to applying wear leveling techniques. And check this out: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/apple/2010/07/01/mac-ssd-performance-trim-in-osx/7
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