http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/Nov 5th 2007 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/Nov 5th 2007 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/Nov 5th 2007 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/Nov 5th 2007 1:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/Nov 5th 2007 1:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/Nov 5th 2007 4:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/Nov 5th 2007 1:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/Nov 5th 2007 1:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/M]]>Nov 5th 2007 2:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/Nov 5th 2007 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/
Someone who realizes that accounts for very little in the way of drive failure. RAID certainly is convinient when used in the various mirroring configuration to prevent data loss from complete hard drive death like you described, but it is also useful when presented with simple bad sectors and other localized data loss that isn't caused by anything so catastophic. Given the number of memory waffers in flash storage of this capacity I wouldn't be surprised if some are not 100% reliable and similar localized failure occurs. RAID would be useful in this situation.

Further, while the performance of the flash drive is pretty significant alone, it could be combined with a stripping RAID setup to further increase data throughput throughout the system. RAID isn't a single implementation after all and some of the configurations revolve around performance rather than data integrety. FLASH technology doesn't obsolete RAID in the least.]]>Nov 5th 2007 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/ ]]>Nov 5th 2007 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/
BTW. Why are 1.8" drives so expensive? Is it because Apple have bought the entire production capacity? And is that why 160Gb are unobtainable from anywhere except bolted inside a Classic?]]>Nov 5th 2007 3:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/Nov 5th 2007 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/Nov 5th 2007 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/
That's effin incredible!

When can we expect them? I seriously can't hold on much longer :P]]>Nov 5th 2007 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/
I want to know MTBF, how many writes/erases before block errors (Flash drives DO have limits).

I'm sure we'll see 32GB iPods next Spring, and then 64GB version in 2009.

Why not just make the PC internal spec memory non-volatile and begone with storage devices!
(I'm just saying that outloud)
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It may oneday happen, especially as processors are not increase in clock speed at anywhere near the frequency (ha) that they once were, opting to build out the number of cores rather than up the clockspeed, but it isn't happening soon, especially given the current price of significant non volatile memory at large capacities vs that of traditional platter disks.]]>Nov 5th 2007 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/

I think it has already begun. ]]>Nov 5th 2007 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/Nov 5th 2007 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/Engadget: I want the price!
Samsung: You can't handle the price!]]>Nov 6th 2007 1:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/samsung-announces-64gb-sata-ii-drives-in-2-5-1-8-inch-varieties/Nov 20th 2007 1:24AM