SSD set to begin replacing the basic HDD

[WoodPeckr]

Flash Solid-State Drives, SSD, are coming out this spring to replace the existing HDD. Dell is offering them in some notebooks now, while HP will follow this spring. What seems most impressive are claims the drive will offer a mean time between failures (MTBF) of one million hours.....that's about 114 years!

Samsung, Toshiba, HP and others are working on them
Here's the Samsung 128GB SSD version:

Samsung spins 128GB SSD

By Tony Smith in Las Vegas

CES Samsung isn't the first manufacturer to take the wraps off a laptop-friendly 500GB hard drive - take a bow, Hitachi - but it did claim today to be the first to announce a 9.5mm-high unit. It also touted a 128GB solid-state drive for notebooks.

The SpinPoint M6 follows the standard 2.5in form-factor for notebook hard drives. It contains 8MB of cache, has a 3Gb/s SATA interface and is fitted with the now obligatory sudden-drop sensor. Some versions come with a second detector, this time for rotational vibration.

The 500GB Spinpoint M6 is expected to go on sale in March.

The tightest Samsung could narrow down the availability of its 2.5in 128GB SSD was sometime before July. It did say the drive will use a 3Gb/s SATA interface and offer a write speed of 70MB/s – a record for this type of drive, it claimed.

The SSD reads data at 100MB/s. Samsung said it uses native command queuing and spread-spectrum clocking to add to its higher performance levels. The drive also features device/host-initiated power management for an “exceptionally low” power consumption level of 0.5W in active mode.

The company also claimed the drive will offer a mean time between failures (MTBF) of one million hours.

HP link

 

[cypherpunk]

SSD is too expensive. It should start gaining traction this year, but don't expect ubiquity anytime this decade. Spinning drives, optical and magnetic, could both be gone in eight years.

 

[newguy27]

whatever drives prices of current drives now is good i guess. We should all be thankful for the plentiful hard drive space that is available these days for great prices. Not to sound too old, but man, when i was a kid....he he

 

[xarir]

It's nice to see the beginning of this trend. I agree that ubiquity will be a while coming, but I certainly feel we will eventually see an end of hard drives as we know them today. It'll be nice when optical media is replaced by solid state as well.

 

[WoodPeckr]

SSD is too expensive. .

But you know prices will drop as they have with all components in time.
10 Yrs ago I paid ~$3500 for a Pent II.
Today for ~$600 you can get a PC over 10X as fast and powerful, loaded with features not around back then.
It's surprising how things have moved along.

Just look at Blue Ray players.
At first they were going for over $1000.
Today, saw an ad at Rosa's where if you buy a big screen HDTV they throw in a free Blue Ray player.