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Only problem is SSDs are still uber-expensive, like $550 USD for a 256 GB-er. Still, the technology is always improving, and with it, the price will decrease and the storage space will increase year by year, so they'll eventually phase out the rather archaic hard disks in, perhaps, ten years. Either way, they're great for notebooks, especially if you're accident prone. :)

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hehe.... a tech thread in AHTO :p

 

I think a few are getting their Gb(gigabits) confused with GB(gigabytes) ;)

 

Serial ATA Standard Revision 3.0 (Sata III), was announced by the Sata-IO Trade Association in July 2008 which will enable 6Gb/s

 

Seagate and AMD actually performed a tech demo of this just last monday(Mar 9)

 

A pic from the seagate/amd demo buffer read test

Sata6gbs.jpg

 

It is estimated that the first sata 3 enabled hardware(drives, mainboards) will start trickling out later this year. No definite word about a Sata3 spec SSD, but Im sure its on its way shortly, between intel and samsung and the like ;) On first release though, you're better off putting the several hundred dollars they'll cost into a nice graphics card instead, which will allow you to have much more fun that watching the file transfer status bar move quickly :D

 

If you found this topic interesting, you should follow the news thread in the tech forum :) (click the droids in my sig to get there)

 

mtfbwya

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ooo raid ooo 24 drives ooo oo ooo ancient technology oo oooo fffff

 

What did you do, watch the first few minutes see raid and 24 drives and then go "pffft thats old news!" And the not watch the rest?

 

Solid-state hard drives are what we're all excited about, not 24 HDs on a raid.

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Remember, kids that in the tech arena, the early-adopter screws the pooch.

 

But anyone here is perfectly welcome to buy a ridiculously overpriced SSD and serve as a guinea pig for those of us who are patient enough to wait for the inevitability of price drops and more reliable versions. ;)

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Remember, kids that in the tech arena, the early-adopter screws the pooch.

 

But anyone here is perfectly welcome to buy a ridiculously overpriced SSD and serve as a guinea pig for those of us who are patient enough to wait for the inevitability of price drops and more reliable versions. ;)

True. Still, its cool to see how technology is advancing.

 

Dad (who's an engineer) went to a Sun convention and they were talking about making hybrid disk/ssd drives. Cool stuff.

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What did you do, watch the first few minutes see raid and 24 drives and then go "pffft thats old news!" And the not watch the rest?

 

Solid-state hard drives are what we're all excited about, not 24 HDs on a raid.

lol, yes, I did watch it all, but a proper RAID setup increases bandwidth a lot, which means the trick is not really done by SSD hardware, so at the end of the day that video says zip about SSD capabilities, also, SSD is not really all that new :p
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lol, yes, I did watch it all, but a proper RAID setup increases bandwidth a lot, which means the trick is not really done by SSD hardware, so at the end of the day that video says zip about SSD capabilities, also, SSD is not really all that new :p

 

Well, it did have a tiny bit about SSD - that trampoline thing could easily ruin normal hard drives, even when powered off.

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nerd-gasm.

 

lolz.... Sally, meet Harry...

 

ooo raid ooo 24 drives ooo oo ooo ancient technology oo oooo fffff

 

and Harry, meet Sally :p

 

Still, its cool to see how technology is advancing.

 

How about integrating tech into our own body? :D

 

usb-finger-03-10-09.jpg

 

After a motorcycle accident, this guy got a 2gb usb drive ported onto his prostetic finger. Holds a Linux distro apparently.... source

 

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