Transcend rolls out high-speed 192GB 2.5-inch SSD drive
By Donald Melanson 
posted Feb 3rd 2009 1:24PM
posted Feb 3rd 2009 1:24PM
It's not exactly the most spacious 2.5-inch SSD drive available, but Transcend's new 192GB model certainly isn't any slouch either and, according to the company, it should be more than fast enough for most users as well. That's due in no small part to its SATA II interface that helps push out read / write speeds of 150MB and 90MB per second, which are further backed up by a latency of just 0.2ms, and some integrated Error Correction Code (or ECC) to ensure that data is transferred intact. No word on a price just yet, but it looks like it should be rolling out any day now, if it's not already.
Well shucks, the price would've been the real newsmaker (or breaker) here.
It is fast, but I wouldn't say it was fast enough to describe it as a "high speed SDD"
See: http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/15/ocz-introduces-apex-series-of-2-5-inch-sata-ii-ssds/
it's available already for $384 at
http://www.provantage.com/transcend-ts192gssd25s-m~7TRSD0K4.htm
Hold on, gotta get some money out of an ATM machine..
..Blast. Forgot my PIN number again.
its 1234, same as your luggage.
Ghen: Please tell me you understand the purpose of my comment..
I'm sure whatever you were referring to is less awesome than what Ghen was.
Certainly less awesome, but a bit more relevant at the same time..
was the purpose of your comment to show how stupid it is to say 'ATM machine'?
/PIN number
Or PIN Number?
'SSD drive'
Hahaha.
I still don't get it.
He's trying to point out that the D in "SSD Drive" stands for "Drive," so that the expanded acronym is "Solid State Drive Drive," just as the N in "PIN number" makes it "Personal Identification Number Number." He believes this to be an obvious and unforgivable grammatical faux pas. He also believes it to be funny. Hopefully my laborious explanation has removed all jocularity.
"He believes this to be an obvious and unforgivable grammatical faux pas."
Obvious, yes, but I'll forgive it when they fix it.
"He also believes it to be funny."
false.
"read / write speeds of 150MB and 90MB per second,"
This better be cheap, cause those numbers are pretty bad.
Those are megaBYTES not megaBITS.
Yeah, like I said pretty bad. The one I'm planning to get is a G.Skill which has
Sequential Access - Read 200MB/sec
Sequential Access - Write 160MB/sec
Or maybe the Samsung which should be 230MB/sec and 200MB/sec (probably dethroning the Intel)
Can't wait for its 500GB and 1TB brethren.
$1000 and $1999 price respectively.
$614.00 on Transcends website
sweet!
"and some integrated Error Correction Code (or ECC) to ensure that data is transferred intact"
That's a false sense of security. If by ECC you mean the data that the hard drive is handed (and then written) is in tact, then okay. However, the ECC on these drives doesn't fix any issues that are related to bad memory, motherboard, powersupply, etc. I'd be more worried about those sources of errors more than anything...
I know, I know, Hard drives use completely different tech, but you would be surprised how reliant we are on current Error Correction Code in current hard drives. I'm sure its similar here. With that much data flying around, interference, etc, is bound to happen.
$380 street price. Don't ask how I know, I can't/won't tell you.
The third comment on this page?
Why do a lot of the SSD's seem to have funny amount of room on them?
Is there an actual reason?
No, 32MB times 6 is 192MB
yes, and likewise 32GB times 6 is 192GB
192 isnt a power of 10! what is happening to hard drives :P
1) Hardly a "high speed" SSD compared to the rest of the market
2) The SATA interface has almost nothing to do with the speed of modern SSDs..
And beware of Transcend products in general. I have been trying to get Warranty on a 8GB SDHC Card for the past 3 days and the local distributor want to charge me $33 handling fee for a $55 product. Absolutely ridiculous. Whats the point of Lifetime Warranty if you have to pay just as much in handling fees? For that price I can get a new card (And you can bet it won't be a Transcend branded one).