Samsung unveils powerful new drive

Discussion in 'News' started by Dashken, May 26, 2008.

  1. Dashken

    Dashken Administrator!

    OMG... so soon? :faint:
     
  2. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    Wow that's fast. BUt how much? :o
     
  3. peaz

    peaz ARP Webmaster Staff Member

    The price of it today would probably kill you :D haha
     
  4. JMMD

    JMMD Newbie

    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.
     
  5. metsamees

    metsamees Newbie

    i would think about 6 months and it's affordable :rolleyes:
    probably other companies started already making blue prints for SSD
     
  6. g0tanks

    g0tanks Newbie

  7. metsamees

    metsamees Newbie

  8. Mac Daddy

    Mac Daddy Pickin' Da Gitfiddle

    Wow that is quick and small as well. I too wonder about the price :think:
     
  9. Zenphic

    Zenphic Newbie

    2.4 times faster? It's about time :p
     
  10. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    Raptor or this? :o
     
  11. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    Nice!! 256 GB is a really useful capacity for a notebook drive! :thumb: :thumb:
     
  12. Dashken

    Dashken Administrator!

    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. :faint:
     
  13. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    Serious or not... Solid state device what. Unless you break the PCB or something.
     
  14. Dashken

    Dashken Administrator!

    Yup, dropped it and then it's not detectable anymore. :haha:

    Or it's a coincidence that the writing/reading lifetime coincided with the drop? :mrgreen:
     
  15. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    LOL! Unlikely. The storage cells in the flash drive are unlikely to fail together at once.
     
  16. Mac Daddy

    Mac Daddy Pickin' Da Gitfiddle

    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 :shifty:
     
  17. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    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.
     
  18. Mac Daddy

    Mac Daddy Pickin' Da Gitfiddle

    True guess I got off topic there :wave:

    So what is shock protection on this drive :think:
     
  19. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    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.
     
  20. Mac Daddy

    Mac Daddy Pickin' Da Gitfiddle

    Yes I suppose but an odd spec to mention on a solid state device I think thats what Dashken was getting at ....
     

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