Intel's
partner in solid state crime, Micron, just announced an update to its
RealSSD lineup of SSDs. Based on the typically slower (and cheaper) MLC NAND process technology, the new 2.5-inch (up to 256GB) laptop and 1.8-inch (32GB to 128GB) ultra-portable storage slabs offer a 3Gbps SATA interface and ridiculous 250MBps read and 100MBps write speeds -- yes, that's fast, damn fast when you consider the
70MBps write and 90MBps read speeds of Samsung's latest consumer oriented SSDs. They even best the listed read speeds of
Samsung's top-ender. Unfortunately, no prices were given though it's said to be "balanced price to performance." Expect 'em to hit the market in Q4 under the Lexar brand, and maybe even
Crucial,
Seagate, and
Intel for all we know.
posted Aug 5th 2008 1:40AM
I should get me one of those realssd's, I'm tired of these counterfeit ones.
Haha... but imagine how much it would be dude... It's going to be in the 600-900!
"balanced price to performance"
In other words, really expensive.
Yea considering it's fast, damn fast; we can expect it to be expensive, damn expensive.
What else did you expect from Micron? Ridiculous speed for ridiculous price. Thats what they call "balanced" :)
But still I'd like to see how much they'd want. Even if it ends with a laugh.
@Link2877
Thats exactly what I was thinking, get out of my head damn it!
I used to work for Micron. I hate Micron... best day of my life was telling them I was quiting.
best day of your life so far.
Micron will forever lament the loss of their finest toilet scrubber!
ACER you don't know how right you are. At Micron all its employees are treated like toilet scrubbers...
Worse than how?
Hey, laptop manufacturers, start putting these in your laptops.
And don't wait for other companies to call you out on your SSD that's been marked up 200% for pure profit.
Asshats.
As an objective and unbiased observer, I feel the need to point out that PMPs like the Zune and iPod should take advantage of this technology when it becomes a bit cheaper and smaller, and make music/movie players with these size/speed flash in them.
They could have better battery life, faster video load time, and much more storage than the available HD based PMPs of today. I can't wait to see this in a device like that new touchscreen iriver Spinn or iPhone/iPod Touch. Now THAT would be incredible tech.
You want a $9.000 iPod Touch Real? I don't.
Just looking to pick a fight, eh?
I did say "when it becomes a bit cheaper",
So until they define how many dollars 'a bit' is equal to, go take your Ritalin and leave me in peace.
Oh, and also: Yeah, I do want a $9 iPod Touch, can you hook me up?
If you are going to take the time to comment, at least learn to use punctuation!
LMAO!!!
Pssst who?....some countries use periods for commas when speaking about money.
Actually some monetary representation systems use period as opposed to commas. Just because you type something a different way, it doesn't mean you have to insult them about it. At least take it in good humour, rather than snide, sarcastic remarks.
Pssst, black?
He didn't seem to be from one of those areas when he posted this:
" Shinigami @ Jul 27th 2008 7:24PM
Disco on the moon!
$100,000,000 per ticket :) "
Nice try though! :p
Yeah, some monetary representation systems use periods as opposed to commas. Just because you type something a different way, it doesn't mean you have to insult them about it. At least take it in good humour, rather than snide, sarcastic remarks.
Oh, snap! Who's the comment master? That's right, who? is!
LMFAO!!!
@Tyler Crumpton
Double posting won't help you get your point across... especially since that theory already totally blew up on you guys! Hahaha!
Why would you need a 250MB read speed flashdrive in an ipod (or equivalent)? That's just stupid, there's no way you'd need that kind of performance - music's no more than a few hundred kilobits/sec at most - nor could you ever even use it, as USB doesn't support that kind of bandwidth anyway. It'd just be a dumb waste of money.
In reference to who?'s successful comebacks:
OH SNAP!
lol, whoever went back and low ranked all of who's comments is a loser
So in this trash-spewing thread there hasn't been much mention of the fact that PMP's will see little of that 250MBps read throughput and almost none of the 100MBps write throughput.
Technology is not its own reward.
Its nice, but I'd rather see the SSD in SLC format. If its going to be expensive, why not spend a little more for a more reliable format?
I wonder how hard it be to fit one in an Asus eee
Correct me if I am wrong...
1 MBps = 100 Kb / second
1 Mb / second = 1000 Kb / second
So should it read 250 Mb / second ?
1 MB per second is 1024 KB per second.
MB is megabyte, Mb is megabit. The same goes for KB and Kb. There are 8 bits to a byte. Oh and some wonderful trivia, 4 bits to 1 nibble. ;D
You represent your Jesuit namesake well.
I miss Micron laptops....back in the day
Damn that's fast. more than 3 times the speed my laptop harddrive currently has an 1/1000th of the latency.
I want one so bad.
I want 2 in "raid 0" actually
I presume that you are extremely optimistic about these SSDs having a significantly reduced failure rate over the previous versions?
Or otherwise, you just enjoy losing data?
My previous comment was @Ronald btw...
What I ask myself: why are these SSD's still 2,5" ???!!!
Because they're silicone based so you can make them smaller as technology advances. The expensive part is the flash memory so making them bigger is absolutley useless. A 2.5 to 3.5 bracket costs $5 so what's your point really? There's no way to fit a 3.5" drive into a laptop, why start with a smaller market on a niche product?
Yeah the only possible benefit to making them bigger (their frame/case not the actual chips of course) would be for cooling (space out the chips some; add a 20mm fan?), but since in their current "brick" layout they aren't having any heat issues in the first place even that possibility offers no real benefit.
Theoretically though they could be making 512GB+ 3.5" drives with the same tech/chips they are using now. But I am not sure if they are keeping to the 2.5" form factor solely because they presume (rightly so) that these drives will be used in lappies 95% of the time, or if it would be difficult/impossible for the current controllers to manage as much storage as they could shoehorn into a 3.5" form factor...
I wouldn't be too surprised to see a performance oriented desktop SSD in the near future though. Something to compete with the Veloci-Raptor, possibly in the 3.5" format... Who knows...
There's no need for active cooling of a flashdrive, nor is there any advantage in spacing out the components for heat-related reasons; these units draw very little power.
I absolutely loved the "Intels partner in solid state crime." XD.
However I found it weird how they squeezed such insane speeds out of the NAND process. I will be extremely excited to see this confimed by testing...
I figure it works pretty much like a striped raid array. You access a bunch of slow flash chips at once and because of the super low latency you get pretty good gains.
with SSD's capacity increasing so rapidly, the hard drive might actually be replaced...well of course they have to deal with the write speed issue
Gimme a 1.0" 64gb ssd suckas!