BiTMICRO's E-Disk 3S320 does 155GB in solid state
By Ryan Block 
posted September 13th 2005 12:45PM
posted September 13th 2005 12:45PM
Forget about these piddly 32GB Samsung flash modules, we're ready to roll deep right now with BiTMICRO's E-Disk 3S320, their military-grade solid-state Ultra320 SCSI hard drive. It transfers sustained at 44MBps, max burst appears limited by the SCSI at 320MBps, and price that's sure to make a grown man cry. In pain.
[Thanks, Fernando]
I think the only question that needs to be answered is .... how much
Most of us have no real use for this, it's 3.5"... and if it's expensive, who cares... besides military and nasa, of course.
Pancake:
Too much for the company to have it on their website.
#2
Did you read Engadget 1985?
Why would we need a GIGAHERTZ processor?!
Thats too much!
The military's technology becomes your standard in 5 years.
HDD need to go away.
Goddamn, give me these in a RAID-5 in each of my servers (to replace the current RAID-5 HDs), and replace my Ultrium-2 backup with those holographic storage cards.
I think then that maybe I could ease off the antacids a bit ;)
It just ruins your whole day to come in and find a hard drive or two dead when the battery backup's serial control board fraps and it decides to endlessly power cycle the whole rack overnight. - OR - the climate control fails and overheats the room and half the RAID-5 sets shit the bed cause no viable hotspare.
Screw magnetic-based storage...
i don't understand, if there's one thing i've learned from recent engadget stories it's that flash memory only has a limited number of rewrites in its lifespan ... something like 100,000. won't a HD made of the stuff necessarily fail after an unacceptably short period of time?
My other question would be product lifespan. Its rated MTBF is 2M hours but Flash based storage can only be written to a limited number of times (10K to 100K writes according to some manufactuers) so would this be a problem in typical HDD usage?
its not a 32GB samsung chip, its a 2GB 32Gb chip.. I thought this was engadget!!
I would keep a few of these in the refrigerator in case company comes over.
Yo mama's so fat she need to wear a 3.5" iPOD GigaFlash to go jogging.
In reply to post number three:
Accoring to the internet I subscribe to...
http://www.bitmicro.com/press_news_releases_20050913.php
Except that 32Gb == 4GB, #7.
1) Haven't you herd (not a mispelling)? "Burst mode" is marketing double-talk.
2) SATA 1 has a sustained throughput of ~50-55 MBps for a good implementation (and ~150 MBps in burst mode, which I've indicated is bunk in any case). Until solid state drives can provide double performance, at the very LEAST (more like quadruple to be remotely worthwhile), it remains a relatively untested and pointlessly expensive technology, with all the pitfalls and drawbacks entailed therein.
Why do they call it "disk" anyway??
I remember my joy at having enough ram to put my entire system on a ram disk (Mac OS 8) and run the Mac Duo on just ram.... not hugely faster but much more energy efficient.
The leap here is that solid state memory capacity is evolving fast enough to outstrip basic OS requirements, lowering energy budget demands and compensating for the stall in battery development.
We are getting close (5 yr?) to a totally solid state slate (style) computer: OLED display, NVRAM "HD" and fast/deep low power CPU.
I can smell it.....
They have competition.
http://www.simpletech.com/oem/zeus/