Samsung Announces Fastest 64-GB SSD 145
XueCast writes "The new solid-state drive from Samsung can write data at 100 MB/s and read at 120 MB/s. This handily outperforms other SSDs now on the market, which typically feature only 50-80 MB/s read/write rates. Samsung's SSD will come in two form factors, 1.8" and 2.5", and will be running on the SATA II standard. It will only consume 50% of the power of current SSDs. There is no information yet about price."
Flash! Ah ahhhh... (Score:5, Funny)
SSD (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Double Dupe? (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, but... (Score:4, Funny)
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Don't flash drives have limited life? (Score:2, Funny)
( Sorry, no thread on flash drives is complete without it... )
This will be frighteningly expensive. I'd go for a cheaper 16Gb version - big enough for the system partition + swap file.
Re:Double Dupe? (Score:4, Funny)
Is there a marketting-to-english babelfish? (Score:3, Funny)
By the half of the page I had developped an extreme allergy to the word "leverage". Two sentences out of three were just saying that the lever some (supposedly awesome) proprietary technology. And more importantly, I was none the wiser. There wasn't a single sentence that even said what it _does_. What makes that technology so awesome? What's the MTBF? You know, some actual technical data.
The more I think about it, the more I doubt that it was actually a Frequently Asked Questions. More likely just something that a marketter thought up, along the lines of:
Q: Are you awesome?
A: Yes, we leverage proprietary technologies to be uber-awesome. We leverage Buzzword(TM) and Uninformative Trademark(TM) and Tech-Sounding-Word-We-Made-Up(R) to be so awesome, that you can't even imagine how awesome we are. And we'll leverage that too. Leverage. Leverage. Leverage.
Q: Does it rock?
A: Yes, we leverage proprietary technology that really really rocks. We liberate enterprises from legacy architectures, we're scalable, we put enterprise-level SANs in your palm, we solve world hunger, cure aids, and probably filled your bullshit bingo card already. That's how much we rock.
Q: Will it rock my socks off?
A: Yes, our awesome leverage proprietary sock-rocking technology. We're that awesome. And did we mention "leveraging" yet? We leverage a lot.
Not exact quotes, but let's just call it an artist's impression. I haven't heard a more content-free text since someone accidentally sold us 100% tech-illiterate merketers when we thought we wanted a technical workshop.
Don't get me wrong, I don't doubt that their engineers probably know their shit. But that's what happens when you leave the FAQ writing to a marketer who doesn't know his arse from his elbow, and obviously think that using enough words will hide the fact that there's no information there.
And just to beat a dead horse some more, what annoys me isn't as much the use of buzzwords, but that they're used to obscure and mis-inform.
E.g., so they say it's "scalable"? How? Your typical motherboard has only one 4x PCI-Express slot, and on half of them it will be under the heatsink of any high end graphics card. So how _do_ you scale there? Throw the card away and buy a bigger one? How's that more scalable than buying a new hard drive? Even if you had more of those slots on some special motherboard, how's that more scalable than buying more hard drives? No, seriously.
E.g., the claim to replace an enterprise SAN and all the infrastructure... is omitting why that infrastructure was there in the first place. If anyone just needed more storage on their local machine, it's trivial to add more than 640 GB hard drives locally for a fraction of the cost. A hard drive, even on a card, is not a SAN replacement.
E.g., video games are hard-drive intensive? No shit? What video games were they playing there? Database Larry Rebuilds The Indexes 3D? Looks to me more like they wrote a list of every single use they could think for a computer, than actually having put some thought into it.
Etc.
Again, I'm willing to give their engineers the benefit of the doubt. I can see why such a card would be nice. Just saying that it would be nice if their good work was presented to the world by someone less blatantly clueless.