SSD power consumption reduced by 86 percent, speeds of 9.5GBps achieved by Japanese researchers
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posted May 20th 2010 6:53AM
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WORK IT. MAKE IT. DO IT. MAKES US.
HARDER... BETTER... FASTER... STRONGER
@Level 5
AROUND THE WORLD....
Why are two French guys holding a Japanese revolutionary SSD?
@Kurian
I think that's an X25-M. IIRC that's American.
@Level 5
Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, Trash it, change it, now upgrade it.....
@Alv ??? Why is Daft punk on there? They are french not japanese!!
@Matt314
But clearly, they are japanese minds born into french bodies. Love the picture. LOL
@Alv
At least when their robots revolt against them ... we'll have about four years to prepare here in the U.S. (since our tech is about that far behind). Thank you, Republicans, for stopping our science and technology progress.
What I would like to see is "SSD price per GB reduced by 86 percent, speeds of 9.5GBps acheived by... etc etc.
@xdreamer the same for me, SSD price is tooooooo much !!
@xdreamer
What *I* would like to see is the expression on the faces of all the early SSD adopters when they take the shaft at 9.5Gbps.
@xdreamer You'd need a newer revision of SATA (SATA 4.0?) to take advantage of these speeds...
@Kurian take the shaft? Hardly. Early adaptors, by definition, will have upgraded to even faster ones by the time YOU buy your first SSD.
@xdreamer Your comment is so silly. Honestly, and I will likely get down voted by saying this because the lemmings upvoted you, but your type are what stifles innovation. Every person thinking short term in the world is doing it wrong. If none of us had bought SSDs, you wouldn't have your model you deem acceptable. For every person who makes a comment like "No computer will ever need more than 640k RAM" or equally asanine comment, I just want to cry. This is why NASA is struggling, because people think it's a waste of time, because they are thinking "interstellar travel is so far off" but guess what, we will never get from point A to C if you just think you can skip B.
In the words of the misguided underpants gnomes:
Step 1: Come up with idea
Step 2: ????
Step 3: Profit!
Guess what, Step 2 is important.
@Kurian By the time you buy a 9.5Gbps SSD we'll be using 100Gbps SSD's. How we will all laugh at your slow system.
@TexRob
Phase one - Collect Underpants.
Phase two - ?
Phase three - Profit.
how much?
+1 for Daft Punk pic
what about down speed?
@Kev007
meh, i meant read speeds
been thinking too much about my crappy internet
@Kev007 If write speeds are that high, you can expect read speeds to be at least 20% higher.
Umm, Daft Punk?
At 9.5gbps the harddrive will no longer be the bottleneck of the computer,when this comes out for retail ill consider upgrading my q6600
@IronReda Processor bottleneck, that will b the day.
@IronReda
I doubt its 9.5GBps, probably only Gbps.
@IronReda
Its 9.5 GigaBYTES per second. Hard drives aren't measured in 'bits', like broadband speeds, but are measured in 'bytes'.
Also, the linked article clearly says "it is possible to enhance the data writing speed to up to about 10 Gbytes per second"
In other words, its insanely fast.
@IronReda
At 9.5gbps, SATA III becomes the bottleneck
@Temple
Storage is measured in Bytes, yes, but usually transfer rates are measured in bits
@DrTrent Though, the article says GBps, not Gbps.
more higher bitrates will mean faster internet speeds which means more graphic costly games online
@FuturismRave
eh?
@FuturismRave
But more better is double plus good so in the win.
@FuturismRave - I think maybe you have your hardware (along with your grammar) confused together... This makes for a faster storage drive - nothing to do with a faster internet connection or better video processor, both of which would be the major factors in your "more graphic costly games online"
@Vrmithrax What I meant was a higher bitrate will allow you to stream quicker online AND offline like watching HD videos and movies. What is writing speed anyway??
haven't even moved to sata 6gig yet myself - what kinda connector will this be using?
.....God bless Japan.
I would think Lightpeak. The full potential is at 10Gbps if I remember. They are working on adding a copper wire to power Lightpeak... so I assume when both technologies are finished, this will be available and useful in devices.
@Rome These devices are capable of 9.5 GB/s, not 9.5 Gbps. Not even close.
@Rome
I would imagine that it would be for PCI-E drives. For example, OCZ makes a 1 TB SSD called the Z-Drive which could be made larger and faster with this technology. The limit on performance at this point is not how many NAND chips you can address (this article says that the new controller can address 100) but the cost per NAND chip.
HUMAN..... ROBOT....
Gosh.... When will all these SSD be affordable enough? And for those manufacturers that say this is the price point, you guys are price fixing. It is obvious.
@darkmax I'm not TOUCHING SSD until I see those price points become reasonable. $1500 for 512 GB? No thanks. For now, I still need to upgrade from IDE to SATA. :|
@ZaxCG2 Why would you want to buy 512GB SSD anyway? Put OS and application on SSD and your cd/DVD/bluray "backups" in HDD
They killed many whales to conduct this research........I only hope Rosie O'Donnell was one of them..........
How good would it be to see some SSD's in the New xbox or Playstation in the future....I wouldn't mind being ripped of then.
I am the modern man...who hides behind the mask... ;-)
@ResidentEVO
.....Epic SN.
@MegaJapan Thanks!
Technologic.
Another nail in the coffin for mechanical harddisks. Next up is capacity and price. With the new generation of 22nm NAND coming end of this year we should get ever closer to a full harddisk replacement by SSD's.