Super Talent announces SSDs from 4GB to 128GB
By Donald Melanson 
posted Mar 14th 2007 1:29PM
posted Mar 14th 2007 1:29PM
The always confident in itself Super Talent has announced new batch of solid state SATA drives, coming in the usual 1.8-inch, 2.5-inch, and 3.5-inch form factors, and ranging in size from 4GB to 128GB. Broken down, the petite 1.8-inch drives will give you between 4GB and 32GB of storage, while going up to the 2.5-inch model will give you a bit of extra breathing room, ranging in size from 8GB to 64GB. The real expansiveness, however, comes when you step things up to the 3.5-inch drives, which start at 64GB and go all the way to 128GB, although that's slightly less impressive than A-DATA's SSD drives, which manage to cram those same 128 gigabytes into a 2.5-inch form factor. Unfortunately, there's no word on pricing just yet, but it looks like we should know soon enough, with the drives set to roll out sometime next month.[Via PC Launches]
The real question is how much power do they use and how much faster than a 10,000 RPM 120 GB Hard drive are they?
if the 64GB is around $100 ill get it, other then that its just not worth it now. at least for me that is.
Question for somebody, if I wanted one of these drives as my main desktop drive, would I have to install windows and all my apps again?
You could always just image your old drive over to the SSD with Ghost or what-have-you.
Thats right. Thanks.
I've you're afraid of having to reinstall, the alternatives will be more scary for you. Reinstalling is the easiest for inexperienced users.
anyone else find it odd that RAM and SSDs follow a binary sizing system (2 4 16 1024 4096 etc) whereas HDDs shoot for (20, 80, 250, 750)10^6?
Perhaps RAM and SSDs have binary scaling because they use banks of matched pairs to store data, unlike HDs whose capacity is determined by number of platters and data density. The question will be: do formatted SSDs lose capacity like HDs, like when a 200Gb HD ends up actually being ~183Gb ?
Scabies, Im not sure how to say it but hard drives are based off of platters thats why they have sizes that goes in 20, 30, 40, ,60, 80, and so one.
Wake me up when SSDs become affordable.
I remember reading a review of the 8gb supertalent ssd thing like this, and dont be expecting some great performance boost. Hell, dont expect ANY performance boost, apparently the thing performs worse than most standard hdds at most things. read for yourself here http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/supertalent-flashide/index.x?pg=1
Where can I buy these SSDs that are always getting articles? I never see them listed online.
64GB 1.8" drives please.
You can buy SSD Drives @ http://wwww.dvnation.com
This is getting exciting, but I really think they should work on replacing the microdrives in PMPs so that we can get something more reliable which can still play video. That being said, I could easily see these things becoming the main drives, with a few 500GB+ regular drives being used in external cases for easy home backups.