SATA Solid state discs from Sandisk

[jasonrudolph]

dont know pricing or availability.

There are some 2.5" disks available out there, but these are normally insanely expensive.

[samsc]

There are some 2.5" disks available out there, but these are normally insanely expensive.

from a san disk press release i believe these do not fall into the insanely expensive category- these guys are trying to move into laptops...

The solid-state flash memory drive will be compatible with most mainstream notebook designs, according to the company, and comes just months after SanDisk announced a similar <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2079535,00.asp>1.8-inch SSD for ultra-portable notebooks. That drive—also a 32-gigabyte version—was $600 more than a comparable 32-gigabyte disk drive would cost.

The new 2.5-inch SSD is now available, however, for $350 (for large volume buyers) as a drop-in replacement for hard disk drives, SanDisk said.

[samsc]

says here manfacturers price around 350$
http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/s...sd-hard-drive/

[samsc]

transcend ssd for laptops:
509$ for 32GB
http://www.transcendusa.com/Products....asp?ModNo=162

64GB
http://www.engadget.com/tag/64gb
http://www.mobileplanet.com/p.aspx?i=150240

pqi disc - no pricing
http://www.pqi.com.tw/product2.asp?o...=158&PROID=263

lexar 16GB SSD for laptop 299$
http://store.lexar.com/?productid=EX16GB-431

samsung
http://www.samsung.com/eu/Products/S...oducts/ssd.asp

[samsc]

There are some 2.5" disks available out there, but these are normally insanely expensive.

found the insanely expensive ones

But the price for a RamSan system with 64GB of flash is $72,000 retail.

http://www.techworld.com/storage/fea...featureid=3231

[samsc]

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Mac-Pro-Memory

16GB around 1500$ --- ( applestore price is 4400$ )

[jasonrudolph]

found the insanely expensive ones



http://www.techworld.com/storage/fea...featureid=3231

Yeah, those are the ones I was thinking of. Good to see the sandisk ones are coming down in price. I could see doing maybe a couple of these in Esata enclosures, so all you need to do is drop a controller card into a rental machine.
I think it would be curious to see what one of these in a fw800 enclosure would do performance wise. I'm sure it wouldnt do as good as an SATA connection, but it would be interesting to see nontheless.

[samsc]

Yeah, those are the ones I was thinking of. Good to see the sandisk ones are coming down in price. I could see doing maybe a couple of these in Esata enclosures, so all you need to do is drop a controller card into a rental machine.

600$ list is a bit better than 72000$...

you could just put them into a mac pro. you need a cable to go from the internal connectors to the drive - such things did not seem to be difficult to get last time i checked.

they claim the access time is 0.11ms.
nothing is ever certain. i havent read any real world reports yet.

[jasonrudolph]

While I know you could just install internally in the mac, for those of us who have to work with rental servers more often than not, if thes drives could work well in an external enclosure, it could be really useful.

[samsc]

While I know you could just install internally in the mac, for those of us who have to work with rental servers more often than not, if thes drives could work well in an external enclosure, it could be really useful.

yes.

it might work in an external firewire case- which would be cool. i havent checked recently whether any of the firewire cases have sata inside. they mostly used to have IDE.