Moar [Intel] SSD News

[VincentVega]

This by way of Tom's Hardware, link here.

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Intel has begun offering NAND flash-based solid state disk drives (SSDs) for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and entry-level desktop and notebook computers, referred to as Nettops and netbooks. They might not offer a whole lot of capacity, but they are one of the first SSDs we can actually call affordable.

You know, I really hate buzzword jargon like that.

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Both new drives should be large enough to hold a Ubuntu Linux-based operating system, a few applications and room for some data storage. Pricewise these are really the first SSDs we find to priced right for the consumer segment: The 4 GB drive will cost $25 and the 8 GB drive $45 (in 1000-unit quantities).

Check that. 8GB for 45 bucks. That's the price of admission. The price of ownership? A little tougher to take, but for the price it's understandable.

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The 10 gram light drive will deliver a read performance of 35 MB/s and a write performance of 7 MB/s. Idle power consumption is 1.65 mWatts and typical power consumption is 314 mWatts, according to Intel.

This is absolutely terrible throughput, but if the chips are reliable then there will be definately something to be said for this. I can envision giant RAID-5 arrays filled with these things. Throughput wouldn't be great, but operations per second would be enormous - especially given the cost!

[Craig]

SSD is the future. Those little drives sound cool