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    Big SSD or what

    Foremay Launches World's First 2 TB 2.5-inch SATA SSD

    Slowly but surely max. SSD capacity will equal max. HDD capacity. And in the future will overtake it for sure.

    Wonder how much does it cost and what are the performance numbers...

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    Re: Big SSD or what

    Nice. Should be as fast as every other SSD, unless they're using unusual flash memory which I doubt very much. Generally more size = more speed in SSDs(within the limits of it's interface anyway). The more memory chips there are the more data can be read at once, to greatly oversimplify and that thing will contain many chips. For a more in depth look; http://arstechnica.com/information-t...s-really-work/

    Yeah eventually SSDs will replace spinny drives for almost every usage scenario. It's just like CRTs and TFTs a few years back, initially the tech had some serious limitations but as the technology matured they have been eliminated one by one. So nowadays even in the CRT's last bastions(pro image manipulation/broadcasting etc), flat panels have become dominant.

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    Re: Big SSD or what

    To be 100% correct more memory chips don't have to mean more speed, depends on the controller too, how many channels it can serve at once.

    About the speed, wonder when the SATA 4 specifications will come out as some drives are already approaching the limit.

    I am a bit sad that the RAM drives didn't became more popular. A DDR3 RAMdrive with ability to OC and 32GB would be ... FAST ?!?

    Always fancied, but never got around to get one.

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    Re: Big SSD or what

    If you look at the size of the new Sandisk SSD, the PCB is tiny. Check out a few photos down here:

    http://www.anandtech.com/show/6553/s...d-review-256gb

    8 flash die stacked vertically in each flash package, so it only needs 4 for 256GB of storage. Despite the use of stacking the performance doesn't really suck.

    Bodes well for scaling of capacity.

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    Re: Big SSD or what

    Quote Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix View Post
    If you look at the size of the new Sandisk SSD, the PCB is tiny. Check out a few photos down here:

    http://www.anandtech.com/show/6553/s...d-review-256gb

    8 flash die stacked vertically in each flash package, so it only needs 4 for 256GB of storage. Despite the use of stacking the performance doesn't really suck.

    Bodes well for scaling of capacity.
    HAHAHAHAHA!!! No way! No wonder SSDs are so much lighter (I know they're lighter anyway but still).

    The article said industrial and comericial temperatures - does that mean they'll run too hot for a regular desktop? Can't wait til the 2TB ssds come down to within a normal budget... because the mechanicals will be even cheaper ^_^

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    Re: Big SSD or what

    One can only dream of being in a situation where i can justify paying however thousands it will cost!

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    Re: Big SSD or what

    Quote Originally Posted by mepbowles View Post
    HAHAHAHAHA!!! No way! No wonder SSDs are so much lighter (I know they're lighter anyway but still).

    The article said industrial and comericial temperatures - does that mean they'll run too hot for a regular desktop? Can't wait til the 2TB ssds come down to within a normal budget... because the mechanicals will be even cheaper ^_^
    Industrial and commercial temperatures normally just means they are not rated for military, medical and space use where testing is much tougher.

    As for mechanical drives, you can get a 2.5" drive for £35 and a 3.5" drive for £45. The capacity you can buy for the money improves over time (generally, if you wait long enough) but it seems they just can't make a drive any cheaper than that. So when 2TB SSD drives are affordable, I expect hard drives will be much the same price as now but around 15TB in size.

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