TDK announces 64GB 1.8-inch HS1 micro SATA drives, we scream in glee
By Joshua Fruhlinger 
posted Jun 2nd 2008 5:29PM
posted Jun 2nd 2008 5:29PM
[Via Electronista]
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I'll take two.
Wait, how much?
Don't worry, you'll still have 3 limbs left.
I'd say only two left, because those cost an arm AND a leg.
And your unborn child.
How about if it costed me my head?
Okay! I'll take one hundred and make the fastest RAID array ever!
Man, I'd be running around like headless chicken in joy.
No Aguiluz, you'd be dead.
2000 ducats?
no seriously, what makes this 64gb 1.8 drive better than the one the macbook air uses (which is "only" like $900).. why is this twice as expensive??
@Samboini
What!? I never thought I would die.
(Okay, I was joking.)
2,000 for the laptop included right?
right..? :-(
LOL exactly what I was thinking...
I'd rather have a $2,000 computer with some LSD.... (Liquid State Drive)... (or whatever the non-SSD things are)
I wonder where iEye is to come with his usual comments
err... DarkLight... a whathef***? Is you from the future? Don't you mean
"HARD DISK DRIVE"?
@ darklight
Just get the computer hold the LSD... :)
"Drugs are bad, m'kay"
I dunno the LSD would probably be a requirement for me to spend that much on a hard drive :)
@ DarkLight, if I could, I would give you 1 billion points, for being the first person to make me laugh on an otherwise crappy day.
I'll scream in glee when they knock a zero off the price tag.
Yea no kidding, so much fo screaming in glee...... :(
If they knock off a zero then the $900 will be $90!
Yay! It is so good, so don't expect it to happen.
Yet..
@Grant:
But while you wait for a zero to knock off....
....you can practice jumping and screaming in glee. So it would be perfect when the time comes. :)
64gb for $200.. i'll pass
Coming soon to the newest, most expensive iPod nano yet!
yea because ipods need 100mbps read times... as soon as i hear about a song that has '100mbps' audio quality i'll jizz myself
You can buy a lot of hard drives for $2000.00.
and you thought MBA's SSD was expensive.
turns out is a bargain compared to this new drive.
There needs to be a certain threshold when it come to pricing gadgets:
1.8" SATA SSD @ 64Gb = $2000
52" Plasma HDTV = $2000
3.5" SATA 1Tb = $185
Huh?
Small gadgets and big gadgets are expensive but medium sized ones are cheaper?
I wish fries and drinks used this pricing scheme.
You can buy a whole lot of potatoes and drinks to make the biggest lot of fries and drinks with $2000.
While reading this I was all like "no wai! omfg are you for realzies?!1" and then I got to the last sentence and I was overcome by a major face palm.
One day when I have my 50 dollar 1TB SSD, I will look back on this article and say "HAH!"
Then I will repeat this multiple times. Of course by then I'll be longing for that quantum drive that gets 500TB/s with a capacity of infinity.
You will also repeat it several times because by then you will be completely senile.
Why is it I can buy a 16 GB USB stick for under $100 but a 16 GB SSD drive costs $900?!?!?
Could it be were all being taken for a ride??? As far as know they're both flash memory...
There has to be something in it as I too often wonder this, perhaps someone can shed some light on the situation? Differences in read/write speed, the number of cycles before failure..?
Supposedly SSD is a lot faster, but with these prices... Just like the WD Raptors with 10 000 RPM. These SSDs are another class itself, this is beyond enthusiast!
SSDs are totally different from USB Flash drives. USB flash drives are ridiculously slow compared to hard drives, whereas SSDs are anywhere from around half the speed of a hard drive to equal speeds of a hard drive, and sometimes faster. But currently it'd probably be best to just get a WD Raptor if you really want speed.
...at least paint it gold and put some diamonds on it.
Damn, I think engadget's comment system went FAIL again...
This is frikkin cool.
I scream, you scream,
We all scream for SSD
Ok, let's make a doughnut!
this is awesome
this is sparta
Buy 3 8GB CF cards, throw thim in a CF -> SSD converter dealy, save $700.
you mean like $2000 of your weak, green, american dollars, right?
Ok, I'll take some of these drives for my kids to play with
Ello ol' chap, fancy a legitimate job not requiring the exchange of drugs and haughty euros, eh wot? :D Jolly good
Let us not forget, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer and the ENIAC were both made by us Yankees (oh, as well as the internet), so you'd still be using the typewriter and telephone (also either made or rather, perfected by us..) as your means of printing texts and communication, respectively, we're it not for us. Good morning. :D