Samsung's 64GB SATA II SSD drive hands-on
By Ryan Block 
posted November 8th 2007 2:27PM
posted November 8th 2007 2:27PM
posted November 8th 2007 2:27PM
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That's hot. Maybe not $950 hot, but pretty hot nonetheless.
Where's the cheap chinese knockoff when you needed them?
How's the performance? Battery life gains?
We need some test results NOW!
hot hot hot.
Now... when can I get one for my macbook?
more like cool ;)
can't wait for the mainstream ssds to pop out!
Right now, for $950. Did you read the blurb?
@joe
but Samsung isn't selling to end users
just read it 'kay? ;)
You'll have to buy a Dell 1330 with this, then swap the harddrive of your Macbook. So it's a pricy endeavor for a lil bit faster Mac.
if youre in the uk you can get one at over-inflated prices
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-047-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910
see link ^
good price for that much storage. most of the currently available SSD drives (SATA) are almost double that.
check your favorite tech shopping sites, they have them by other various vendors. I've had an IDE one for awhile, and the SATA versions are out, just not at $950 for 64gb. not that i'd get one yet, but if you're dying to try one, the 16gb are halfway reasonable prices.
Anyone know where to buy a 64 gig Samsung SSD? I'd like to pop one in my laptop.
Too bad this wasn't an option when I ordered my m1330, not that would have spent $950.... but still.
What the hell?! No one has taken it apart yet?!?!?!
or even tested it out.
A hands on review usually means putting it through its paces, here it looks like a hands on review simply means taking pretty pictures of it.
Guess we will have to go elsewhere.
- Roger
It's got some Flash chips on a greenish circuit board. There's some small capacitors and resistors and some misc. other ICs. Not much to see. Move alone.
It's really a hands on, as in, we got our hands on it. That's it.
I'd be more than happy to test this for you - purely out of altruistic reasons, of course.
This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of [spinning discs] and will soon see the end of [hybrid hdds] [/Vader]
Don't QUITE agree there. I predict something along the lines of a drive that includes this volume of Flash mem for a system/application drive, with rotating media for file storage (maybe with 3-4 GB cache to cut drive activity)
How long till the $950 becomes a $95? Anyone want to take a guess?
I sincerely hope it takes less than 2 years...
Spankys says:
4years, 3months, 2 and a half days..
SWEET MOTHER OF DIONYSIS! THAT IS AWSOME!
Oh and also, with SSD, am I right in saying that future storages will become smaller?
I'm in at the $500 mark.
I think you will see these become useful as operating system (boot) disks on desktops sometime soon, with traditional platters used to supplement media storage. Hopefully price-feasible in the next couple of years.
Magnetic disks will not go away as long as media size is so big. My raw files from my camera are 15mb each, my music files are 5mb each, and my standard definition DVD ISOs are 8gb each. I have a 1.5tb NAS and I am out of room and need to upgrade to 1tb drives!
Looking forward to the full review, guys. Color me jealous...
When 1TB versions of these are available I'm selling my house and brining my mega-SSD set-up into my tent :P
2,000,000 hour MTBF? That's like...
just a sec...
228+ YEARS! Sweet, my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandchildren can laugh at what a tool I was.
2,000,000MTBF means diddly squat.
If you'd look at current mechanical hard disk MTBF's they are also pretty high, but some may fail a whole lot earlier than that and some may fail later. It's an estimate based on statistics and not an exact number.
I cannot wait for the day when all laptops have SSDs as available options at the same size as HDDs are now. Oh how sweet it will be to be able to charge a laptop at night and use it the whole day!
I don't think anyone should be saying these drives are failure free... Sure there are no heads to crash, but I can't count how many flash devices (CF/SD/USB/etc.) I've had fail over the years... either corrupting files or flat out becoming un-usable. MAYBE the drives will be faster and they should easily use less power, but I'm not so sure that they'll prove to be safer for data than modern hard drives. I suppose only time will tell.
Right on, Tyler. Ask any professional photographer about how skittish flash memory can be! Why do you think big, pro dSLR's have two CompactFlash slots with redundancy as an option? :)
..Um, did u read "2 MILLION hours MTBF"?
Exactly. I have plenty of (authentic) flash memory fail in many years of using them. I always make a point of backing up content to my harddrive every few days because data corruptions tends to happens randomly causing total lose of content.
These failures are not permanent and a quick format would fix things. Not the data though.
These don't use the same memory design as CF cards, which is why a 64gb SSD costs 3x as much as the same amount of capacity in CF/SD in a much larger form factor. They are designed to transfer faster (especially random read/writes), and have wear leveling. Consumer flash memory is designed to transfer fast in sequential access only, low cost, and for maximum density. Even now you can buy an IDE to CF converter, but it's mainly used for embedded systems that don't do a lot of writes.
WANT! Hell I would settle for an IDE version at 40gb for my old school srx77 ultra portable.Im sure the demand will be huge for these once they start pumping them out the the price will plummet with a quickness. (wishfull thinking?)
Needs more capacity.
If you put two of the 1.8" versions in a box, will they fit in a MacBook Pro?
And, I’ll just keep my rant going… If I can have a MacTablet with a real processor (not a large iPhone), I’d gladly drop a couple grand for 200 gigs of solid-state pleasure! 128 is so close.
God I want one of these. After you're done testing it, please send it to me. k? thanks.
make an iPhone out of that, Steve, and you're flying!
A 2.5" hard drive in that? That thing would be pretty big... My Archos 504 has a 2.5" hard drive and it ain't small.
Yes, yes. Very nice. But will it blend?
So, Engadget... Is this drive gonna show up in one of your famed leave-a-comment-get-a-prize giveaways? Or are gonna have to break up?
Erm... "Or are we gonna have to break up?"
$1000 for a SSD. I like them, a lot, for they cost a lot, too.
Sweet merciful crap that's expensive. I can't wait till this is in mainstream price range. Man, oh man, that's gonna be sweet.
It's so sexy.
I would spoon with it before putting it into my tablet.
I am warming to SSD the more I read about it and I can't wait till it becomes mainstream, although I must admit that when hard disks are finally gone, I will miss the reassuring ticking sound it makes as it works away... that sound will be all but a distant memory...
Yeah, about as much as I miss the screeching of my dial-up modem.
Yeah, about as much as I miss the screeching of my dial-up modem.
Seriously, those hard drive noises used to be the only way I knew my computer (running unnamed OS) hadn't completely locked up. If these catch on, what am I supposed to do?!
WOW !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VKqXhvJ5Ic