Greenhouse claims its DH-SSDGD SSD drive is 'industry's fastest'

When it comes to drives, it's all about space and speed. That's why we were happy to see that Greenhouse is boasting that the DH-SSDGS series is the "industry's fastest" -- sure, we can't verify that claim, but at least they're trying to get our attention. Regardless, the new drives read at up to 130MB/s with write speeds of 67MB/s, with capacities that range from 16GB up to 128GB. Drive size is a standard 2.5-inches, with a 9.5mm height. Greenhouse says the SATA-compatible boxes will be available in late May (in Japan at least), no word on pricing.

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[Simon Blackburn @ May 13th 2008 11:56AM]

Getting there.


10 years from now


Hard Disk what ?

[Pochi @ May 13th 2008 12:09PM]

The old disks are "hard," and these new ones are "solid."

Seems kind of the same. YET NOT!

MADNESS.

[w00t @ May 13th 2008 11:57AM]

Keep 'em coming guys, the quicker we can get these down to a reasonable price the better! :)

[schmitty338 @ May 13th 2008 12:01PM]

Uhhhh....wouldn't those speeds still make it slower (mainly in the write department) than the memoright SSDs recently reviewed on Tom's Hardware?

[w00t @ May 13th 2008 12:22PM]

I'm not really bothered just yet, I was just noting more competition = better prices = the closer we all are to the holy grail of 100% solid state computing :)

[birdoprey @ May 13th 2008 12:05PM]

Memoright SSD MR25.2-032S already has write performance of around 120MB/s. These guys are a little behind. They are inline with the older Mitron Flash SSDs which can do just under 70MB/s.

[Weeze-dog @ May 13th 2008 12:07PM]

It may boast 130MB/s read, but that drive's write speed PALES in comparision to Memoright's GT series of 120MB/s read AND 120MB/s WRITE speeds. Nobody can beat that yet.

[Weeze-dog @ May 13th 2008 12:12PM]

Mtron's older SSDs do 100MB/s read and 80MB/s. There is a problem with Intel chipsets though that caps their speeds at ~70MB/s. It only applies to Intel, though and other chipsets work fine. Another example of Intel's shoddy work on non-CPU products like chipsets and graphics.

[brian @ May 13th 2008 12:17PM]

Industrial = $$$
Fastest = $$$$$
SSD = $$$$$$$$$

There's my words on pricing.

[kal326 @ May 13th 2008 1:42PM]

You forgot Industrial SSD $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

I for one am still waiting for the company to claim the cheapest per GB SSD. Because for the price of the 128GB drives you could build a raid 5 with 15k SAS drives and smoke that setup in speed and capacity while still maintaining good data integrity.

[majortom @ May 13th 2008 12:39PM]

does this mean that hard drive failures will be a thing of the past: ultimately?

[Howard @ May 13th 2008 2:11PM]

More likely it means that if your drive fails, you have absolutely no way to get the data off of it.

[Lazerface @ May 13th 2008 1:30PM]

DH-SSDGD SSD ... what a mouthful

[John @ May 13th 2008 3:22PM]

Also that if you want to smoke your drive for security purposes it would be easier...

[BowserUSC @ May 13th 2008 6:49PM]

Tell Greenhouse I don't want worlds fastest I want worlds cheapest.

[Basic @ May 13th 2008 10:33PM]

How cheap? Cheap enough that you lose bits on pages daily?

You can buy Transcend, Super Talent, Q-Memory and get a slow unreliable HDD replacement already.