While
SanDisk didn't do itself any favors this morning with its
netbook-centric SDHC card, at least it's making up for it somewhat with a legitimate launch here. The outfit's pSSD line, which was
originally announced exactly this day a year ago, has just started to ship. The pSSD P2 and S2 both employ a new technology dubbed nCache, which supposedly improves netbook performance by supporting some fresh level of burst performance. In fact, SanDisk claims that these drives offer a non-volatile cache of up to 320MB, though it doesn't bother sharing standard read / write rates. Anywho, the drop-in modules are available now in 8/16/32/64GB sizes, and while exact prices aren't disclosed, we're told that they're "attractively priced."
posted Jun 2nd 2009 4:59PM
Well this is a welcomed first.
I still prefer mini PCIe SSD.
PCIe >>> SATA
Any ideas on exact read/write speeds?
Hopefully installing an OS won't be tragically slow
tragic you say, brb, Shakespeare.
I did a quick search and I'm pretty sure I found the pSSD's spec sheet. Check out this URL - http://www.sandisk.com/Assets/File/pdf/retail/SanDisk_pSSD_PB0608-1.pdf
It's a PDF file, so might take a little, but they are claiming these will have a sustained read of 39MB/s and write speeds of 17MB/s...so, yeah....not all that promising in my eyes...ahhh well...
Uhm, any reason other than performance not to use these in regular laptops? Looks like sata/zif to me.
I wonder if that ZIF connector is the same as on the hard drives of iPods (Zunes perhaps too?)
If reasonably priced, this could be a part of a nice hack - maybe one could even snap in an additional battery in the gained space :)
Exactly what I was thinking--I got a 32GB CF card into my iPod 5.5G (better sound quality than the Classic), and have never looked back. One time when my friends were hungry after a night out, and I was really drunk, I literally smashed it on the floor of a Wawa, guts all over the place, and was able to (very drunkenly) put it back together before their food was done. Durability of flash + full-sized iPod - expensiveness of iPod Touch - the whole "touch" part of an iPod Touch = Win.
The CF problem is that I could use more battery, and this looks to be even lighter (CF mod = 30% lighter, 20% better battery life).
sub $100 pretty please
LOL... and then you woke up...
i demand FACTS
you must be new here
bring on the $30-35 8gb drives for distributed computing boxes or other super-simple "thin" boxen, please