Sandisk Solid State Drive (SSD) - Why is it so fast

[GuyTakashi73]

there are little people in my computer 0_-

[monkeyman1140]

I've seen the death of punched cards, the dot matrix printer, the floppy disk, the single core CPU, and the death of the hard drive looks to be quite close.

I won't miss them either, when HD's fail they fail BIG.

[SerpentSouI]

Getting 2 7200rpm hdds in raid0 gives you pretty much the same speed as a SSD for a fraction of the cost

[paccopco]

SSDs are good but HDDs are better... because when you defragment it then it's super faster than before

[andyarceye]

Amazing how its taken around 20 years to achieve what the amiga 600 did, although its faster now the principle is the same solid state storage.

[jograd08]

why don't they make a test on writing speed and life span.. SSD suck on that part.. plus its way expensive for less space.

[nationaleventphoto]

you get a skateboard with SSD

[alexzeegreat]

man i cant find a video for the G3 ssd

[SiliconRover]

Without specific benchmarks comparing hard drive and ssd drive performance this is just an example of slick, but meaningless, marketing.

[monkeyman1140]

@SiliconRover

Well its obvious that even the slowest SSD will be faster than the fastest single HD. Latency and seek times are the prime reason why hard drives are slow. Burst rates and interface speeds have climbed dramatically, data density has skyrocketed, and rotation speeds have increased, yet the HD is still painfully slow.

SSD's don't have latency or seek times, so that completely eliminates that from the equation.

[virginboy92]

@SiliconRover whats the point of comparing benchmarks when its clearly beyond comparison

[aznlilhero]

whoa awesome. i didn't know there were another form of hard drives.

[jaws99099]

LOL.. livin under a rock I see.. JK =).. they have been out for a while. but there expensive as hell.. give it till the end of 2009 they will be all over the place.

[aznlilhero]

awesome. lol looking forward to buying one.

[xenoalien]

I'm just waiting for a nice price drop...

[DC180]

@xenoalien still waiting?

[virginboy92]

@DC180 lol

[Metriod29]

alright notice the words "small files" XD HDD still wins SSd phails

[BergluX]

HDD is just a few seconds slower. But i hate slow so i would prefer SSD.

[Schmidt54]

In my HDD there is a little man, too. I killed him. Then I replayed him with 10 Chinese super-laborers. Now my data is gone and I can't read sh*t on my screen. :-/

[jaws99099]

You did it wrong. I laid the worker off with no severance package and replaced him with a small army of oompa loompa's..

[123456789sha]

cool i like to watch this ^^

[GeyweNDS]

wen this sandisk ssd is available?

[12creations]

now. Ebay "64GB SSD drive"

[rcfreak363]

do they make them bigger then that?

[12creations]

Sure. If you are willing to pay a fortune.