BiTMICRO introduces 832GB SSD for CES 2008
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Jan 4th 2008 12:18PM
posted Jan 4th 2008 12:18PM
[Via Macrumors forums]
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wat.
The problem is that it uses MLC. MLC is cheaper than SLC because it seriously sacrifices performance. Durability is decreased to 10% of SLC and read/write rates are about halved. In addition, because it is inherently more taxing to read/write, error frequency increases.
This defeats the purpose of having an SSD. I'm sure that BITMICRO has some innovation that they aren't telling everyone, but it could just be a promotional ploy. Either way, I'd be wary of any MLC products, whether it be SSD, CF, or even microSDs.
Sorry to rain on your parades.
thats a big step forward!
(inserts link to lame blog here)
The 832GB number is bogus.
The manufacturer's site says:
2.5-inch: 8 to 416 GB*
* Up to 64 GB at 8.5 mm height
You see - no mention of 832GB.
And i can't help but wonder if 64GB is 8,5 mm thick, is the 416GB disk that the manufacturer IS talking about, 55mm thick??? Come on, click the link on the article i dare you.
What does it cost? $10,000?
1 bazillion dollars and 3 Hawaiian islands. And not the crappy ones, the GOOD ONES.
Now that's what I'm talking about! :-)
Exactly what I was thinking,
The cost is probably outrageous, so when it comes down under $100 call me :-P
here, here... to both of you
Under $100.
Good God that could be quite a while.
chewba, probably not. flash drops so fast these days.
@dj-kepno:
This is how much 128GB costs.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609245
It may drop fast, but not that fast, man. I say again... it culd be a while. A long while.
I read the article 3 times to make sure I wasnt doing it wrong. that is a ridiculous amount of storage.
haha try 5+ times...
I love technology! You can always count on it to get bigger / better / faster
Dont forget harder and stronger ;]
well they work it harder, make it better, move it faster , which makes them stronger. right?
I can't wait much longer!!!
/The/ best thing about this is that that song /just/ came on shuffle as I read the comment. Amazing, haha.
It isnt a rediculous amount of storage, its just a lot of FLASH. Not to mention a ridiculous price.
how many laptops(maybe alienware) i would be able to buy with its price ?
Mulitple Alienware? Try multipe Falcon-Northwest Laptops.
damn ! i really did not knew about the company before, shame on me !
Alienware > Falcon NW
Alienware offers SLi 8800GTX,, Falcon NW only offers SLi 8700
That may be, but FNW still beats them in the "Outrageously Expensive" category.
How about one of those overpriced Macs? Those things are expensive!
@SteveMB
Please post links to a lesser priced "Name Brand" PC with equal or greater specs (including CPU cache, bus speed, memory speed, etc.) than a Mac. I bet you cannot find 2, probably not any.
The reason Macs "seem" more expensive is that they only have 3 models in each category (with a few exceptions). Models being 1. The absolute latest technology, 2. One step below that, 3. One more step below that. Categories being Pro Desktop, Consumer Desktop, Mini Desktop, Pro Notebook, Consumer Notebook, and iPod (which has recently expanded beyond the 3 - Classic, Mini, Shuffle). That's the business model. And it works http://finance.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1199555325000&chddm=492269&q=NASDAQ:AAPL
Other companies like Dell continue to sell 3-5 year old technology which gives the illusion of greater value. If you want the same kind of bargains with Apple, you have to go through a retailer like Small Dog. Apple is a hard nosed company, who cares very little about freedom. They design an exquisite user experience and deliver their vision for what computing should be. It's unique and many people love. If you don't, they are not going to change for you, or make it easy for you to change it for yourself. The phrase "how do you like them apples" does not apply, because nobody cares how you like 'em.
While i do love Apple computers, and while they certainly tend to have the latest processors, their laptops consistently have lots of RAM and their style is second to none, they do not excel at providing good platforms with high end graphics cards - something i expect if i'm shelling out that kind of money. Presumably this will gradually change - the MacBook Pro is getting better for instance - but for now they are not considered "high-end" in one of the most important areas. This is arguably unimportant for an OS like OSX and for the general needs of Apple consumers, but for those who want the best, Apple sometimes doesn't cut it.
832Gb in a SSD? Eh... I'm holding out for a TB.
(BTW, I'll be so greatful if I can get 64GB in my MacBook Slim next week!)
The question is what the read/write speeds are. Until now the only suitable SSD solution was with SLC, since MLCs read/write were too slow.
Well, there goes a years salary!
Forget about paying for one or robbing a bank. I want to know where they will be stocking this babies.
Now just need a few of those in a raid....a very big and extreme expensive raid array..
Holy Cow!
How much?! how much?!
...no, you were right not to tell us.
for some reason I just read your comment in a dr zoidburg voice.
too much futurama.
I keep rereading it though in the same voice....
lol!
You can -never- have enough futurama.
If available and cheap enough, I think I'll build my next system with four 64GB SSD drives in RAID 0. The Witcher should load a lot faster that way (and all my other games for that matter).
screw faster, the benefit is they'll be silent!
...............and it's 2.5 inches as well. I would happily give up my HP Pavilion for that hard drive.
But what would you use it for without a comptuer :-P
Also, this thing probably costs as much as the Apature Science's Portal Generating Device, as you know that costs more all of the organs in subject's home town!
a portal reference! :D
the first of mamy to come i hope.
@Paragraph
You had me rolling with that one!
are we sure it's not eight 32 GB drives? Where TH do they get the number 832 from?
Other than that, suhweeet..... just make that $150 and I'll buy a couple :D
832 / 32 = 26
It Divides evenly, so it's possible they have 26 32gb chips in there :-P (honestly, i don't know how small chips are, and the capacity, but i do know it's not shenanigans worthy)
If anyone did not geekgasm instantly upon reading the article title, they have no place to be on engadget.
woot, cause i had one of those uber uber geek moments upon reading that headline.
'teh future is niiiiigh!'
There are already HDDs at 1 TB so this is not that impressive. Just allot of chips stacked together. Make them smaller though is more impressive.
And I bet they won't tell you how many read and writes you get before a specific area is unusable again... And, how much is it? ^^ Get me this at the price of a 1 TB disk and I buy it!
Sure 1tb in a 3.5" form factor I haven't seen any in a 2.5" form factor yet.
By the time one of those hard drives have exceeded their read/write cycles your IBM hard drives will have failed and died at least a 100 times.
Sweet Zombie Jon Stewart!
I was expecting a slow progression in SSD size, but, dayum. So for the price of one of those I could afford multiple backup laptops and a french maid to carry said backups around with me?
I guess it's time to put the house up for sale.
can we add this to the things we want included on the macbook pro ultraportable for $1500?!?!?!?!?
Has anyone bothered to ask if they are referring to gigabits and not gigabytes? The old GB vs Gb? It's all marketing. 832 is ridiculous if we are talking about gigabytes, considering there aren't any SSD drives around even 80 gigabytes, or 320 which would be a more comfortable and more cost-effective number...
you mean GB(decimal) vs GiB(binary). Gb is used when talking about transfer speeds. by the way does anybody know this bad boy's transfer speeds?
No, I mean what I said. There are certain people who decide to use a gigabit as a unit of measurement. After all, it has to be a unit of measure to be used as a transfer rate... it's an amount of data per second.
Iam so confused. The site says the max size is 416GB but engadget say 832GB which is it?
¿Does it cost less than a Ford Mustang 2007?
no, it costs more than a 2008 mustang fitted with wings and scramjets that gets 1000000 mpg running on woodchips
why the strangly random amount of storage. when i first read it i just thoght it was a mis-type and that it should be 32GB. meh.
Why all the hate? I'm glad SSD is getting mainstream. They will get better and bigger, prices will drop. Consumers win!
can anyone tell me why these things are 2.5 inches wide?
They are 2.5" wide so that they can fit in the same spot as industry standard laptop drives.
Laptop Drives are 2.5"
Computer Drives are 3.5"
CD-ROMs/Writers/etc are 5.12"
Hi John!
Well, I understand that's the reason. What I'm trying to point out is that these SSD's should be fitted like a SO-DIMM onto the mainboard. Although I do not know how many memory modules are inside such a SSD and if they need extra cooling.
Are SSD's in SO-DIMM format feasible?
Greetz, Frank
Want.
I do not believe until I see it. Thanks.
Man yea i would love to have a reasonable ssd drive in a laptop ranging from 60~ 100 gb in the future, just for the main os and basic uses. But to pay a shitload for 832 gb seems stupid. IF i need that much space I can get a regular hd and enclosure and connect via usb or firewire. Or get myself drobo and set up a server.
I want my 832 Gig iPod!!
If this thing costs $30/gb (an entirely reasonable estimate, given the prices of current SSD's), you'll be plunking down nearly $25,000 for this drive. Only a Saudi oil prince would be able to put this in his Counterstrike rig. Give me a break!
It's official, like I've been expecting. The PS4 will have at least 2TB of SSD memory. Probably no disc drive. 2TB would be enough. Even if each PS4 game was 50GB, you could hold 40 games.
Somebody's breaking Moore's Law
Meh.. rumors ftl..
The writer either misworded this or, not to be rude, does not understand what it is talking about. On the website it says their highest capacity is 32gb or 64gb(not sure) So I think if that 832gb is a real number, they got that by using many 2.5in drives. So not only would that cost a fortune, it would be huge! So this is no breakthrough here, I am almost certain.
Lemme see...
I saw on frugal that a 128GB SSD costs about $30 per GB = 25K for a 832 GB drive. Trade in your Audi for a Mac Book with one of these SSD in it !
Jesus christ you people are stupid as all fuck. Did anyone read the article? They put out a press releases about them SHOWING it at CES not releasing it for sale or even putting in on their website. My god
The release is listed here: http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?p=1143550
and not I'm not pushing that website
dude. look at the website they have a bigger one too! In the 3.5" ( so for desktops) capacity goes all the way to 1.6TN+B in SSD
http://www.bitmicro.com/products_edisk_altima_35_4gbfc.php
cant wait till the new macbook comes out with the new NAND flash memory
832gb in a macbook can u imagine!!!!
so since 832gb is close to 1tb we should expect one out by oh lets say...tomorrow, right? after-all "tomorrow is only a day away..."? :) tech is sooo slllooow these days! lmao
Dude, that'll fit right in to my Dell quantum computer with interdimensional heat exchanger.
Yes, it is on their website, and yes, they are a high end OEM company who serves a lot of DoD and Government applications, so these things will not be in the consumer reach anytime soon.