Technological Breakthru

[Chakka]

Here is really a tech revolution in HDD replacements:

64GB flash discs will be available in PATA and SATA flavors with NO MOVING PARTS! This all means that the fastest hard drives will not be hard drives at all but flash drives. Sell your stock in hard drives companies imo:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2763

[Bio-Hazard]

Only problem is the price,....................;)

[mousiness]

its bound to be mainstream by 2020, and plus when you move your pc a lot it does nothng to damage the HDD!!!! AND PCS CAN FINALLY GET EVEN SMALLER!! YAY!

[Kougar]

I've already heard that the hybrid flash hard drives are only rated to last a year before the chips exceed the max/read/write counts and expire. So those of us that leave systems running 24/7 would be in trouble I'd imagine...

Same thing should apply even more to a pure flash disk.

[liqnit]

it looks like price is a big problem
also i read that seagate is planing to have a HD with 256MB buffer (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20060607161259.html).

[Chakka]

Yes but think about just havin the operating system on that drive for fast boots and everything else on raptor hdds....I see it more as the main drive for the op sys. At least for in the near future...

[Kougar]

it looks like price is a big problem
also i read that seagate is planing to have a HD with 256MB buffer (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20060607161259.html).

Actually, this tech will be affordable... at least the hybrid versions.

The 256mb is the low-end and expected to have a $20 price increase above a standard 8/16mb buffer SATA drive. They have a mid-range part with 512mb memory buffer, and also a drive with 1gb and 2gb even.

When it does arrive Robson will not be overly expensive, coming in at around $20 for the whole basic package, we're told. That's probably the 256MB of memory, and one will be able to get Robson also in in 512MB, 1GB and 2GB flavors. "I'd say that 512 will be the sweet spot for the market," Patterson told us. "The more memory you have, the more you can load up. With 256, you'll get the Ready Disk and the most basic bits of Application Boost. Most users in business will go for 512, I'd guess."

This paragraph is hidden within this article: http://www.tomshardware.com/site/computex_2006/ (http://www.tomshardware.com/site/computex_2006/)

Edit: While SCSI may be more expensive, I'd settle for this new 15,000RPM 300GB SCSI drive, also new from Seagate & using perpendicular recording. The performance on this thing would knock your socks off... Expected to last about five times as long as a hybrid flash memory drive and with a 5 year warranty ;) http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2768 (http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2768)

[liqnit]

this technology will make the computer a lot more easier to work with - when you have the OS load in 2-3 seconds
it will be great

[zachig]

Yeah...it will be just great if could lauch our OS in a few seconds, as in most PC rigs nowadays, it takes 20-30 seconds to load...:roll: