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   #15. Posted at 10:46 PM on Aug 19th 2008 Edit   Reply
mattthemuppet
wow, it's going to take them a year to double the capacity of the Extreme version? That's surprising. Disappointing active power consumption too - 2.4W is in the realms of 2.5" 7200rpm drives.
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#15, why is it surprising? if ssd's follow transistor trends then ...  :  green  (#25)  «

   #17. Posted at 12:25 AM on Aug 20th 2008 Edit   Reply
TRS-80
With the growth of eSATA, at some point people are going to start carrying around SATA flash drives instead of USB flash drives.
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#17, Well, the cheap flash used in the USB drives is nowhere clos...  :  UberGerbil  (#19)  «
#17, I guess the chance of eSATA replacing USB for flash drives i...  :  Grigory  (#23)  «
#17, it'd need its own power source.  :  eitje  (#24)  «

   #11. Posted at 06:34 PM on Aug 19th 2008 Edit   Reply
0g1
These look to be the fastest solid state drives, but 2.5" form factor really puts me off as well as the likely high cost per GB.

But 6 of these in RAID 0 would be very nice :o.
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#11, There was a review on some Mtron SSD's in RAID 0 using high ...  :  mesyn191  (#13)  «
#13, If you are rich you are likely to be much more concerned ...  :  indeego  (#22)  «

   #18. Posted at 01:09 AM on Aug 20th 2008 Edit   Reply
MadManOriginal
X25-E Extreme

Should have been called the X25-X Xtreem. Two X's is twice as good and with the intentional misspelling, well, it's got to be the best ever.
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#18, Why not put in an i for good measure, unless Apple has a tra...  :  indeego  (#20)  «
#18, I thought we were finally over "extreme" names. ugh  :  Homerr  (#21)  «

   #8. Posted at 05:08 PM on Aug 19th 2008 Edit   Reply
Flying Fox
What about real-world performance compared to 7200rpm drives?

What about the life-expectancies of these things compared to regular drives?
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#8, They said 250MB/sec so I assume that's what HD-Tach would re...  :  0g1  (#10)  «
#8, Life expectancy of an SSD is longer than that of a regular H...  :  Helmore  (#12)  «
#12, Well, unless you're worried about write lifetimes, which ...  :  continuum  (#14)  «
#14, Which is nothing to be concerned about with SSDs. They...  :  titan  (#16)  «

   #4. Posted at 02:34 PM on Aug 19th 2008 Edit   Reply
IntelMole
What's the point of native command queueing on a drive with no moving parts? Or is that just a fancy term for "concurrent requests"?
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#4, Could put the hurt on the Fusion-IO guys. These iops numbers...  :  jwb  (#5)  «
#4, Because you want to be able to queue together the commands t...  :  0g1  (#9)  «

   #1. Posted at 02:08 PM on Aug 19th 2008 Edit   Reply
Saribro
A full 64MB variant? :D
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#1, GB?  :  Usacomp2k3  (#7)  «

   #2. Posted at 02:15 PM on Aug 19th 2008 Edit   Reply
Sargent Duck
Soooooo....when are we gonna see some TR reviews of this? Geoff, you reading this?
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#2, *bump*  :  DrDillyBar  (#3)  «
#2, If I told you when, I'd have to kill you. But rest assured w...  :  Dissonance  (#6)  «
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