Samsung Launches SSD 830 Drive

MojoKid writes "Although they haven't been big hits with enthusiasts, Samsung's solid state drives have been successful due to strong relationships with a number of OEMs, including Apple. With the release of their new SSD 830 Series Solid State Drives, however, Samsung appears ready to make inroads with enthusiasts as well. The SSD 830 tested here is 256GB model, with eight 32GB Samsung NAND flash memory chips, 256MB of Samsung DDR2 SDRAM cache memory, and a new Samsung SSD Controller. The Samsung controller features a 3-ARM core design with support for SATA III 6Gb/s interface speeds. Performance-wise, the Samsung SSD 830 Series drive offered the best Read performance of the group that was tested, even versus the latest SandForce-based SSDs, though the SSD 830 couldn't quite catch SandForce in writes."

Re:What will happen when they die?

[lucifuge31337]

Virtually all SSDs do some form of wear leveling and are over-provisioned to ensure that no one erase block gets worn out early.

Still a kludge. I'll be waiting for a technology that doesn't wear out at all - or at least not within a human lifetime. Flash memory is still half-baked IMHO.

So what exactly are you doing for data storage right now? Surely not a regular hard drive, because that doesn't meet your criteria either. Are you carving things into brass plates?

Re:Price???

[timeOday]

New high-end products reduce prices by devaluing older products, not by being cheap in themselves.

Re:What will happen when they die?

[lucifuge31337]

This is about upgrading; why upgrade to a crappy technology just because it's faster?

I see you haven't spent much time in the computer industry. Enjoy your Windows 95 and ham radio license.

Re:Predictable?

[vadim_t]

Different kind of failure. You're linking to firmware bugs. HDDs have those as well [mswhs.com]

In this thread we're discussing wear induced failure.