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C'mon Steve, put these in those new subnotebooks... Do it... DO IT!]]>Dec 10th 2007 2:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 2:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 4:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 13th 2007 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/
You seem to think that these SSD drives will be faster than a regular magnetic platter. They are not. Your other reasons are valid, but speed is not a good reason to go SSD.]]>Dec 10th 2007 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/I'm assuming it's all PR vaporware.
Perhaps AMD should start announcing SSD's, they have experience with vaporware :D
]]>Dec 10th 2007 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/I'm guessing people don't get my sense of humour though when I made an AMD joke.
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flash drops in price by half every year, or so it seems..
]]>Dec 10th 2007 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 3:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 3:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/
And ya, an ipod touch with 128Gb...that would be UNREAL - imagine how much time we could all waste watching everything we download wherever we go...]]>Dec 10th 2007 3:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 4:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/
with such reduced hdd use and power consumption, this could possibly enhance battery life by a lot (anyone got a way to calculate it?)]]>Dec 12th 2007 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/
The one thing that might be interesting about this is that 1.8" and 2.5" SSDs can have the same capacity. So we might see a 256Gb SSD 1.8" before we get a 250Gb 1.8" hard drive. The other interesting point is the way that Flash based PMPs and thumb drives are now severely lagging SSD state of the art. 8Gb PMP? Pah! 128Gb Nano anyone?
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You what?!

Don't be an idiot. Vista might need 15GB to install, but certainly doesn't need once installed. I believe it is a little over 6GB.]]>Dec 10th 2007 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/
Actually, the more the better, if I could get 1TB solid state in a laptop, I wouldn't need a desktop. Sounds good to me.]]>Dec 10th 2007 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/
What I'd really like is an SSD drive in the 16-64GB range that fits in a 3.5" enclosure. That would be plenty to load OS, swapfile, and some primary applications/games on. I can dump large media files on a cheap spinning disk.

Also, why can't these manufacturers stripe data? It seems if they're going to use multiple NAND chips that they could stripe them for massive data throughput. No seek time either!

I'd really like to boot Windows in five seconds.]]>Dec 10th 2007 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609245

not the toshiba or sandisk version, but it's one that is out there. $3.3k!]]>Dec 10th 2007 6:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 6:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/

still long way to go SSD ,]]>Dec 10th 2007 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/
Of course in 3 years when it's affordable, the next version of Windows will install to 150GB but, we'll worry about that then.]]>Dec 10th 2007 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/
The entire XP based system takes up 4.7gb of space if anyone was complaining about the size of these things have a little think first.]]>Dec 10th 2007 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/Dec 10th 2007 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/toshibas-new-128gb-sata-ssds-hello-sandisk/An MP3 player would benefit greatly from this and the instant on would be great for your PC, but I can't see it helping too much on making your PC much quieter. On my Mediacenter PC the noise comes from the CPU's fan, if only a CPU can be cooled passively which can run Vista Mediacenter and play HD .avi files, the HD .avi files consume all the CPU resource and keeps it running way too hot.

I would like a 32GB SSD for the OS but would still use the two 500GB SATA on the system for storage. The noise will still be coming from the CPU’s fan (I know your all thinking water cooling)
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