BiTMICRO crams 416GB of SSD into 2.5-inch IDE HDD

Oh sweet, sweet SSD. BiTMICRO clearly shares our love for that speedy, stable and battery-friendly form of storage, and is letting the world know with its new 416GB 2.5-inch SSD drive, which as far as we can tell is the largest amount of flash memory yet to be crammed into that form factor. Dubbed the E-Disk Altima ATA-133, the line starts out at 4GB for the spendthrifts out there, but ramps up to 416GB for some indeterminate and undoubtedly large price. They should be shipping by March of next year.

[HoldenCfld @ Sep 11th 2007 10:49AM]

Damn. If only I had bottomless pockets.

[Jonathan Keim @ Sep 11th 2007 11:56AM]

How would bottomless pockets help you purchase this? ;-)

[HoldenCfld @ Sep 11th 2007 11:59AM]

Figuratively.

[Andir3.0 @ Sep 11th 2007 12:18PM]

You can fit more loot in bottomless pockets.

[Major Malfunction @ Sep 11th 2007 12:35PM]

But you could never reach it.... bottomless, ya know?

[Marshall @ Sep 11th 2007 2:00PM]

I had bottomless pockets once. Then I sewed them up so my keys wouldn't fall out of the bottom of my pant leg and onto the floor. Before taking this step, I lost several pens and some coins.

[Kiwi616 @ Sep 11th 2007 10:52AM]

Hopefully this brings down the $$$ and they start putting this into camcorders

[Jonathan Keim @ Sep 11th 2007 10:53AM]

I'm for that as well, but please, give us an AVI option! Some of us like uncompressed video to edit after we're done

[alexdodd @ Sep 11th 2007 10:55AM]

Very very young technology, but it can only get better. I can't wait to replace my laptop hard drive for something of similar size SSD for a "sensible" price!

[Porfuse @ Sep 11th 2007 11:03AM]

ill take it !

[Matt Peckham @ Sep 11th 2007 10:59AM]

So, is that the evil SSD that is spawning all these 2GB flash drives? We should send Sigourney Weaver after it!

[fontendet24 @ Sep 11th 2007 10:58AM]

When this thing will be in iPod, iPhone?

[Bogdan @ Sep 11th 2007 11:46AM]

I'm sorry to say this, but today Apple officially reported that they'll block the function that previously allowed to add more storage to their devices. This came as no surprise to many analytics (read: fanboys) who are still shocked by this week's "add button" saga.

[Benson @ Sep 11th 2007 4:05PM]

AVI != uncompressed video
Don't confuse codecs with container formats!

[mentalsticks @ Sep 11th 2007 11:00AM]

Is that an odd-shaped SSD in my pocket or am I just happy to read this?

[Jeremy K. @ Sep 11th 2007 11:08AM]

w00t! Now for someone to make an awesome pmp out of this.

[tchiseen @ Sep 11th 2007 11:11AM]

oh dear me, that's a lot of storage for a single drive, even for a standard 3.5. all i can say is wow. how much does everyone think this is going to cost next year?? $2,000 ? $3,000? more? i want one.

[Tush @ Sep 11th 2007 11:13AM]

The death of the standard HDD is coming

[ark_v2 @ Sep 11th 2007 5:43PM]

And I hope it comes fast, I really want to get a SSD for a reasonable price.

[Matt Peckham @ Sep 11th 2007 11:16AM]

Platters are for Pluto.

[HineyWipe @ Sep 11th 2007 11:33AM]

"Long live the conventional HD"--- King of SSD

[IrishGandalf @ Sep 11th 2007 11:51AM]

2.5"? this would be sweet for PS3 ubuntu. Now bring down the price for me, there's a good company.

[Lucas Couvreur @ Sep 11th 2007 12:01PM]

Damn two days ago only 200 Gb or something ?
And now allready 416Gb :o

So how much Gb will it be in a month ? 20TB :)

[duh george @ Sep 12th 2007 6:22PM]

hmm, either your memory of Moore's Law is a bit fuzzy, or your math is just really bad

[jerrt @ Sep 11th 2007 12:15PM]

my ps3 just got hot and bothered thinking about all that ssd space. too bad the price is going to be crazy high.

[QR134 @ Sep 11th 2007 12:25PM]

I'll start the bidding at $5.00.

[Andir3.0 @ Sep 11th 2007 12:33PM]

$5.01 !!

[jsanders4484 @ Sep 11th 2007 2:02PM]

$5.02 [Maximum bid of $8.32, a bottle cap with a coke code on it, a movie ticket stub, and some pocket lint.]

[Mel @ Sep 11th 2007 6:47PM]

Include a picture of your mom's bewbs and you've got a deal

[ronnie @ Sep 11th 2007 12:27PM]

i think i need to change my pants

[Scott @ Sep 11th 2007 12:44PM]

What're we saying the over/under is on the price of that bad boy? I'm thinking $3000 is a good number...and I'm gonna be optimistic and take UNDER

[dj-kenpo @ Sep 11th 2007 12:58PM]

a 64gb is $1000, so It'll be way over $3000.

but who cares. 4 years from now these thigns will be dirt cheap.

remember just 3 years ago when 17" lcd's were $999?
ya, that didn't stick too long now did it.
flash, be it normal or ssd is small, more and more companies will be pumping it out, expect 1tb within 3 months

[DeWeese @ Sep 11th 2007 2:17PM]

This is amazing news, by the time it goes into production there will be even better capabilities. But just knowing that this is possible means great expectations from cameras, using flash drives in computers instead of hard drives, and for my enjoyment, more storage on flash based mp3 players and phones. Hello 416gb iphone. haha

[Robert Johnston @ Sep 11th 2007 1:15PM]

Oh, for Buckner's ever-full money clip. These things are in the "If you have to ask, you can't afford" price bracket.

Still, a nice RAID array of these, in a quad-quad-core Opteron system with 64GB of RAM and Quad-SLI Quadro Graphics cards should come close to running Vista at a reasonable rate... ;) j/k.

[Tom @ Sep 12th 2007 12:22PM]

Don't be daft. It'd still hang.

I'll take 3.11 for workgroups anyday, thank you. And that's coming from an OS X user.

[Jonathan Sundy @ Sep 11th 2007 1:24PM]

According to iSupply it's currently around $8.75 per gb of flash.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/iphone-only-costs-250-to-make-rest-of-price-is-fanboy-tax-229664.php

So that would mean this drive would cost $3,587.50 which honestly isn't that incredibly bad. But factor in low production, and maybe some special engineering (plus the fact that if you NEED this you can afford it) it could be anywhere from 5 to 10 grand (complete conjecture).

[Ricksta @ Sep 11th 2007 1:49PM]

Weird number. I'm guessing the following:

256 gb ssd + 128 gb ssd + 32 gb ssd = 416 gb ssd

Mutant SSD!

[Stetson @ Sep 11th 2007 2:50PM]

Just a guess, but I think that this is a 416GB (gigabit) drive. Flash chips are commonly measured in GB. 416GB divided by 8 is 52Gb (gigabytes).

[Jinky Williams @ Sep 11th 2007 3:01PM]

@Stetson:

I believe that you've got GB and Gb reversed. I think "B" is bytes and "b" is bits.

But good thought on checking that. Internet providers like to play that game all the time. That would suck if other mediums adopted marketing things in "b"s instead of "B"s.

[Steele @ Sep 11th 2007 8:19PM]

woah

[Richard Lai @ Sep 11th 2007 11:01PM]

Sweet. Quick-loading porno library.