http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/ Engadget Comments for CompactFlash-based SSDs get tested http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/Feb 15th 2008 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/Feb 15th 2008 12:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/Feb 15th 2008 12:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/Feb 15th 2008 12:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/
The price and capacity will start improving exponentially once the technology becomes more mainstream, and even if you can't see it yet SSDs will surpass HDs and not in too much of a distant future either.

I personally can't wait until my hot, whining, clunky and unreliable hard drives are replaced with silent, fast, cool and reliable solid state technology! ]]>Feb 15th 2008 1:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/Source? Even the fastest one listed on that site is 37MB/s, whereas a cheap seagate 7200.10 drive easily hits 80MB/s sustained. And the faster ones I see on engadget when searching for SSD are in the research stages and would cost several grand to a consumer.

"The price and capacity will start improving exponentially once the technology becomes more mainstream, and even if you can't see it yet SSDs will surpass HDs and not in too much of a distant future either."
Well, currently for the price of a 32GB SSD you could get at least 1TB of hard drive storage and probably even 2TB. That's 32/64x the capacity for the same price (well, couldn't find a price on SSDs but I'm kind of estimating).

"I personally can't wait until my hot, whining, clunky and unreliable hard drives are replaced with silent, fast, cool and reliable solid state technology!"
Right, and when was the last time you had a hard drive fail? Also, when have you noticed how hot or noisy your hard drive is? (I'll admit, I don't have much experience with laptops but I have never noticed the hard drive in any of them besides ancient ones, the sound is almost always from the CPU fan). And if you're really worried about reliability, a RAID5 array would be much cheaper and more cost effective than an SSD.]]>Feb 15th 2008 1:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/
Burst Read/Write:- 155MB/sec
Sustained Read:- 120 MB/sec
Sustained Write:- 90 MB/sec
Max. IOPS:- 76,000
Access Time:- less than 0.1 msec

Find me a hard drive that can do that!

My computer (Mac Pro) has no CPU fans, no video fan and no chipset fan. The case fans spin at a whisper quiet 500rpm...
I set my drives to sleep after a period of inactivity and trust me the difference is huge!

The last time I had a hard drive fail was last week, my Maxtor 200GB drive packed in and makes loud clunking noises instead of spinning up properly. The computer has not been moved for a long time and that drive was still fairly new!

I never suggested SSDs were a viable option yet, but the technologies both available now and in research are extremely promising and I expect to see some huge advances over the next few years, faster than the advances conventional drives will make over the same period.]]>Feb 15th 2008 2:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/ "when have you noticed how hot or noisy your hard drive is?"

I notice it all the time. I have a Fujitsu P1120 and a Fujitsu C-500 tablet. Both are totally fanless, so I can indeed easily hear the HDDs. I use the tablet as an always on e-mail and VOIP terminal. During the day (or evening if I'm actually there) I can't hear anything as there are any number of other full size desktops running in the same room, but at night as I'm drifting off to sleep I frequently hear the HDD spin down in the tablet. Kind of a high pitch whine.

Not that it's incredibly disturbing or obtrusive. But it is quite audible. Just sayin'...

As for heat...The P1120 gets plenty hot to the touch right around the HDD. Not quite too hot to hold, but close...]]>Feb 15th 2008 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/Feb 15th 2008 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/Feb 15th 2008 1:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/Feb 15th 2008 1:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/Feb 15th 2008 1:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/Feb 15th 2008 2:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/
That would have been a better test, use the fastest cards...]]>Feb 15th 2008 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/
It would be a lot more efficient to have a PATA converter. CF cards are electrically compatible to PATA. That means the converter would just be a physical conversion without the need for expensive electronics and would probably therefore be faster and take less power.]]>Feb 15th 2008 1:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/Feb 15th 2008 1:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/Apr 23rd 2008 5:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/Feb 15th 2008 1:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140206793671]]>Feb 15th 2008 1:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/
Nothing stopping you using this with a hardware RAID controller either.
Does away with the energy, speed and price disadvantages of using the SATA to PATA converter mentioned in the article too...

Come to think of it, I'm seriously considering this!]]>Feb 15th 2008 1:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/Feb 15th 2008 1:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/Feb 15th 2008 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/
Now high-cap high speed FRAM might work ... hmmm.
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optical hard drive 30 per gig
multiSD reader ]]>Feb 15th 2008 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/
optical hard drive 30 per gig
multiSD reader ]]>Feb 15th 2008 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/multiSD ]]>Feb 15th 2008 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/Feb 15th 2008 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/compactflash-based-ssds-get-tested/http://www.computerpoweruser.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2Farchive%2Fc0802%2F09b02%2F09b02%2Easp&articleid=45065]]>Feb 15th 2008 8:41PM