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you can even make an i-rumor about how steve jobs invented flash-based drives... ay caramba! i-mean, i-caramba...]]>Mar 13th 2007 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Those bashing it's small size just keep in mind that your gigs of pr0n will run just as well if there is a secondary platter based HD that holds them.]]>Mar 13th 2007 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
I'm really looking forward, when the drive is going to be available for the public. ]]>Mar 13th 2007 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Mar 13th 2007 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Mar 13th 2007 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Mar 13th 2007 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Mar 13th 2007 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
@Kroc
Yay, fanboy bullshit, and only 3 posts in.]]>Mar 13th 2007 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Mar 13th 2007 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
Don't quit your day job.]]>Mar 13th 2007 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
My current lappie is only a 40 and I really would like more space - so 32 is not enough but it's obviously right around the corner. Where I can see this being really useful is in a USB-powered enclosure. I can't tell but is this drive even in the neighbourhood? 0.9 watts doesn't mean anything to me but it seems high for a USB-powered enclosure.]]>Mar 13th 2007 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Mar 13th 2007 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Mar 13th 2007 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Its not fanboy bullshit. OS X really does boot up ridiculously fast compared to Windows. I've yet to test Vista (w/ or w/o a flash drive to boost performance), but comparing my MacBook to my PC Desktop, there's no competition from my PC.

WHy is it that, as soon as someone says "Mac," "Apple," or "OSX" everyone starts booing and crying "fanboy bullshit"? Its even worse if a writer mentions Apple in any way other than negative. Fanboys are the baised kiddies slandering the other side, not the ones who come in and can attest to a quality product. OS X is quality; its streamlined, each version more hardware-efficient than the last. Windows is the opposite; it foregoes hardware optimization for eye-candy features. Yes, its harder (damn near impossible) for MS to optimize Windows for the limitless combinations of hardware out there, but they don't even try to limit the bloat in their product. Apple, on the other hand, is mindful about that, because of how many older Macs are still in common use (G3s, G4s, G5s, Intels). All of them can run the newest Mac OS at respectible speeds, thanks to Apple's dedication to their OS.]]>Mar 13th 2007 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
So OS X does boot up that lightning fast then, does it? Well, we'll call it the McDonalds of OSs and leave it at that.

As for this, Flash is not a viable alternative to platters, it does not have the life for it, we need to be focusing on bringing MRAM and it's alternatives to market, they have an ungodly lifespan and far better write speeds if similar read speeds, until then this isn't much of a step forward in lifespan. Now for reliability, it's sturdier and harder to break versus a platter drive, so for on and off use with a business laptop or the like, it's just fine.]]>Mar 13th 2007 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Mar 13th 2007 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Mar 13th 2007 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
At 32GB, you'd put all your apps on this drive (and games too). You'd just want a 1tb platter drive to store your: music, videos, xbox homebrew, documents, etc.

I'm with you though. I do this now with a small quick platter based drive and a 500gb platter drive in my desktop.]]>Mar 13th 2007 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Mar 13th 2007 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
In regards to the operating system, anyone will benefit from faster read times. Something more interesting would be using this drive to hold an Adobe scratch file, cache for video editing, or placing a portion of your swap on it. Those areas are probably where this thing would truly show its worth.

A couple of things I always wondered were if these things have a greater lifespan than your average flash drive (I could see a system drive getting way more than a million writes) and if they are lighter than a standard drive.

It would be way awesome to have a lighter tablet.]]>Mar 13th 2007 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
No one is going to boo you if the article is about Apple/Mac/OSX. We've had enough Mac-vs-PC crap going on that it's just sick to see fanboys hijacking every single discussion.]]>Mar 13th 2007 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Mar 13th 2007 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Mar 13th 2007 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
What is the deal with these SSD drives, though? Can they support more W/R cycles than, say, CompactFlash? If not, how are these anymore worth the amount of money companies are charging for them when people have been naysaying the CF to IDE adapters for a while due to the low number of W/R cycles they can handle?]]>Mar 13th 2007 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
IIRC]]>Mar 13th 2007 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Mar 13th 2007 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
Where in this article does it mention anything about Apple?
NOWHERE. If someone came into a discussion on Macs with "Windows is better because my machine boots faster" you guys would respond the same way. We get it people who have a Mac like it a lot. Now shut up about it, and quit derailing every goddamn article.]]>Mar 13th 2007 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
One guy said something good about Apple, and he got two PC Fanboys after him. That isn't a flood of Apple fanboyism by any stretch. And I've always found Engadget's reporting to be pretty fair and unbiased, having experienced the best and worst that both systems have to offer now.

I'll admit that Apple has its fanboys, but their numbers are far fewer than those of PC kiddies. Thing is, most Apple users have used both Macs and PCs, so they have experience with both, whereas most PC fanboys have never used a Mac, hiding behind the "I'd never use one because they suck so much" excuse. If half the raging PC fanboys would give Macs a fair shot, they'd see that most, if not all, of their misconceptions are exactly that.]]>Mar 13th 2007 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Mar 13th 2007 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
OSX is the McDonalds of OS's? What Does that mean?

Billions Served?
Large selection of features for a cheap price?
Fast Service?
Only occasionally burns customers?
Plays games?
An Industry Leader?
A pioneer in their field?]]>Mar 13th 2007 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
I've used both quite a few times, I prefer Windows, I don't need obtuse menu systems, angering single-button mice, and the options I WANT buried under dumbed down and overly pretty interfaces, I can get that just fine from Windows ME, thank you very much.]]>Mar 13th 2007 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
And I've never had problems finding options. *shrug*

But like I said before, I (as in me, my preferences) always thought that Engadget was pretty unbiased (as in not caving in to PC fanboyism) about PCs/Macs.]]>Mar 13th 2007 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Mar 13th 2007 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
I would reall prefer a 32 GB drive in a form factor that would nicely in a slate type table and have space for a slot loading optical drive.]]>Mar 13th 2007 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Mar 13th 2007 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
We've been waiting a long time for this technology. 32GB would be fine on my desktop, since all my media is on a second drive.]]>Mar 13th 2007 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
Compared to say a 143GB 15k RPM SAS drive that only gets around 200IOPS and has a seek time of 3.5 + 2 second latency, this drive could be fantastic in situations that require lots of reads/writes in random locations (e.g. databases).]]>Mar 13th 2007 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/Mar 13th 2007 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/]]>Mar 14th 2007 5:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
the main reason to use this kind of thing rather than a HDD is it can be made very small. That means the design of the portable can be improved.

This version is pretty pointless considering the price.

Maybe you should all think more about design implications rather than ms seek time.
doh

keep smiling
waddo]]>Mar 14th 2007 1:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
I don't think anyone is suggesting you swap this out for the HDD in your laptop today, but the trend is obvious -- SSDs are going to continue to get physically smaller, faster, have higher capacities, and cheaper. Plot the price/GB of regular HDDs or RAM. It won't be long until we see hybrid SSD/HDD combos shipping.]]>Mar 14th 2007 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
I'd like to see the OS running on a 2-4GB micro drive and then using an external drive for running any large apps I have. The OS shouldn't be so resource hungry like microsoft products have been in the past. And having a small Drive dedicated to running a "lite" version of the OS is probably a favorable solution. I'd like to see how these drives get implemented considering my next computer will probably be in the subnotebook range.

PixelsGold

http://www.pixelsgold.com/
link to Reuters article http://tinyurl.com/yuk5kc]]>Mar 14th 2007 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/sandisk-intros-2-5-inch-32gb-ssd-hard-drive/
Even if there's no risk of a head crash, there could be other, similar devastating failures. You can't just pop out the platters and take 'em to a clean room if the controller chip dies.

And it will be interesting to see how law enforcement and Nonexistent Agencies develop technologies to read deleted files off of these pups...]]>Mar 14th 2007 5:52PM