It is expensive but just the fact that it's moving along so quickly is great. Only a few more years and it should be affordable.
i would think about 6 months and it's affordable probably other companies started already making blue prints for SSD
I would love to have four of these in RAID 0, btw there's also a news article about a 512GB SSD on engadget: SimpleTech announces 512GB and 256GB 3.5-inch SSD drives - Engadget
Shock resistant? Hmm... I don't know. I've dropped my USB flash drive before and it went dead, straight... and you won't get any warning of this kind of drive dying as well.
Yup, dropped it and then it's not detectable anymore. Or it's a coincidence that the writing/reading lifetime coincided with the drop?
Shock resistant usually refers to some sort of read ahead buffering like Sony CD players used a few years back to prevent skipping during playback in vehicles. That sucks on the USB man
Actually, read-ahead buffering only works for mechanical devices like CD players. Whenever a vehicle hits a bump, the jolt causes the disc to vibrate and this disrupts the laser reading from it. The buffer buys the player sometime to realign and start reading properly again. Doesn't work for flash drives because they are solid state devices.
Oh, well, it's just that the entire drive is made from solid state components. No mechanical parts. So, they are much more robust to shock than hard drives.
Yes I suppose but an odd spec to mention on a solid state device I think thats what Dashken was getting at ....