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Wednesday February 28, 2007
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The promise of solid-state storage drives has been discussed for years now, and while we've seen some pretty sad offerings to date (like this one that lets you plug in 4 SD cards in some kind of RAID array, almost guaranteeing horrible performance ) it looks like the field is improving and we're seeing better high-capacity drives becoming available.
Adtron's 160GB solid state drive here looks to be an early entrant into the new world of high-capacity, high-throughput storage without moving parts, sporting data transfer rates of up to 70MB/sec and both IDE and SATA connector configurations for use in any computer. Unfortunately the real limiting factor on this technology is price, with even 64GB solid-state thumb drives costing upwards of $6,000. There's no pricing information on Adtron's site for the new drive, but it's already begun shipping and interested parties are advised to contact Adtron's sales department. (Which leads to the conclusion that its very expensive.) [via SciFi Blog]
Post by Alan Henry
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March 1, 2007 11:38 AM
It's also for the enterprise...
March 1, 2007 1:38 PM
I gotta say, I wonder about that, Mark.
Granted, the pricing makes it prohibitive to anyone BUT enterprises willing to drop the cash on it, but it's awfully small and obviously geared at being installed in desktops and small servers, for one. Additionally, most organizations I've visited (which is certainly not a count of all companies, so I won't try to say it's definitive) don't use servers that use IDE or SATA drives. A lot of server technology still uses UltraSCSI or the even newer SAS hard drives for their enterprise needs.
Which makes me wonder, even though the drive is available, which industries and which enterprises is it aimed at? Not that I'm complaining though, I'd love for this kind of tech to come down in price to consumer level!