• Solid State Drives

    Solid State Drives

    Techtree Test Labs, Apr 19, 2007 1200 hrs IST

    SimpleTech announces their Solid State Drives (SSDs) which are the largest capacities in a 3.5-inch form factor till date.

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After the recent developments in Solid State Drives or SSDs, SimpleTech has announced the Zeus-IOPS SSD 512GB and 256GB SSD drives. These are the largest SSD drive capacities in a 3.5-inch form factor till date.

SimpleTech claims 200x performance over 15,000 RPM enterprise hard drives along with better reliability to boot. Although the prices are not confirmed yet, analysts suggest the SSD prices to droop to $2 per GB. But for now, they are well out of our reach by a huge margin. Good news though, the 256GB SSD is available in the international market.

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(8) Comments
v.mohamedali ve
,jidddha, on May 01, 2007 12:31 AM
please give me full information (solid state drive)
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Mohammed Lokhan
,Mumbai, on Apr 23, 2007 01:56 PM
200X speed difference is huge. People will pay for that. Maybe smaller HDD like 80 GB @ $160 (Rs. 9000) would be a hit, since HDD continue to be the slowest component in the computer due to mechanics.
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Abdul Hafeez
,Varanasi-India, on Apr 22, 2007 12:08 AM
dealers name and adres
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whiz
,pune, on Apr 19, 2007 12:46 PM
unless the price of solid state disks falls, i do not expect 'data storage' enterprise users to move to this technology just because it is 200X faster. There are many speed tech. available but because of price bit the dust eg.RAMBUS RAM.
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Pradip Shah
,Vadodara, on Apr 21, 2007 08:50 AM
You are comparing apples & oranges. While one is of volatile type the other one is non-volatile. If the prices of even static ram to fall substantially you could have phenominally fast PCs. That is the reason their use is limited to cache memory. Even though the technology is available it has to be affordable for mass acceptance even for the high budget corporates.
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usthad
,chennai, on Apr 20, 2007 10:23 AM
pls send the technical details of thse SSD.
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Shankar
,Pune, on Apr 20, 2007 09:47 AM
It is good for software companies & other high investmest companies not for end users so as per price company never think it.They wants good results with best quality.................is it?
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Gdn | TD
,Chennai, on Apr 19, 2007 06:29 PM
Yup, true.. But I do hope that these become affordable one day..
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