PNY to offer next SSD lineup

More of a heads up than anything else, PNY issued a release today stating its intention to debut is new SSD drive lineup at Computex early next month. We don't know the sizes or prices on these things, but we do know that every time a new company adds their products to the mix it only means everyone else has to work harder to make their gear cheaper and better -- and the sooner we can take out all the spinning disk drives from our machines, the better.

[Pedro @ May 24th 2007 5:44PM]

Gimme one of those £7k SSDs for £300 and maybe we'll talk.

Oh, and improve write speeds.

And make sure there's none of that limited-number-of-writes crap.

And it had better be non-volatile. But with speeds of RAM chips rather than NAND.

Thanks. Hang on, why do I want an SSD? I'd say more R&D should be done before releasing these products.

Just my €0.02.

[Major Malfunction @ May 24th 2007 6:41PM]

Pedro said... "Gimme one of those £7k SSDs for £300 and maybe we'll talk."

Well Pedro, you might want to do some research about SSD's before spouting off. They aren't 7,000 anythings... 32GB SSDs are down below $500 according to MorningStar.

Pedro said... "Oh, and improve write speeds."

Since we all know that mechanical read/write access is so much faster than flash memory. Sure. Boot time is 30+ percent faster than HDD's as well.

Pedro said... "And make sure there's none of that limited-number-of-writes crap."

You do know that the MTBF on HD's is lower right? There are no moving parts and there are estimates [perhaps old] that hit upon 1.5M hrs before failure compared to 500-700K hrs on HDDs. You won't hit the number of writes to a flash drive anytime soon. I'll bet your HDD against my SSD anytime.

Pedro said... "And it had better be non-volatile. But with speeds of RAM chips rather than NAND."

Where have you been? SSD's aren't RAM drives, perhaps I should have stopped bothering to reply when I read this statement. Buy SSD drives so R&D is compensated and you'll see improvements. There are no free rides.

SSDs will replace HDDs as people purchase what is offered, if the offer isn't taken, they won't continue development except for industrial uses such as military installations.

[Wil @ May 24th 2007 6:45PM]

Isn't SSD drive repetitive?

[Jason Stone @ May 24th 2007 8:11PM]

No more than HDD (Hard Disk Drive is)

[ACHOO!!! @ May 24th 2007 9:45PM]

PNY makes nothing but CRAP!

[Breaksjm @ May 25th 2007 7:16AM]

PNY Crap??? I think their XLR8 retail products are pretty darn cool. And from what I hear, they are in more OEM products than what you would think. I am excited to see what they have in store for us on the SSD front. I just hope we can buy them, and not have it be limited to OEMs like SanDisks SSDs.