Samsung launches 500GB laptop drive - bit-tech.net Forums

CardJoe · 7th Jan 2008, 11:02

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/01...laptop_drive/1

Samsung has launched a new 500GB laptop drive at this years CES, and the good news is that it's a standard height - so it's viable for current laptop owners.

DougEdey · 7th Jan 2008, 11:53

Nice, now we just need to know about power ~~drain~~ Consumption

DXR_13KE · 7th Jan 2008, 12:21

lots of portable porn.......
i am also interested in the power consumption of it....

wolff000 · 7th Jan 2008, 13:37

nice but spinning drive in a portable device just seems to last century. I want some ssd at a decent price already.

TGImages · 7th Jan 2008, 14:09

SSD is where I expect to be as soon as the price is a bit more competitive... however the market for larger drives like this being used in external cases or as secondary drives will be around for quite awhile yet.

Sark.inc · 7th Jan 2008, 14:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by TGImages

SSD is where I expect to be as soon as the price is a bit more competitive... however the market for larger drives like this being used in external cases or as secondary drives will be around for quite awhile yet.

hdds will always be cheaper to make will they not?

if so they will always be around then..

sandys · 7th Jan 2008, 14:26

probably has piss poor performance like most laptop drives

, the solid state stuff can't come down in price quick enough if you ask me.

DXR_13KE · 7th Jan 2008, 14:40

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Originally Posted by sandys

probably has piss poor performance like most laptop drives

, the solid state stuff can't come down in price quick enough if you ask me.

with the increased density of data normal 500Gb Hds surpass the 10K raptor in terms of speed...... 500Gb on a slowish laptop hard drive may make it stupidly fast compared to earlier smaller hard drives....

anyway the future is for solid state......

TTmodder · 7th Jan 2008, 15:20

Stop developing ordinary hdd´s .Gimme high performance long lasting cheap ssd´s NOW

Anakha · 8th Jan 2008, 02:25

I still want to see standard flash modules connected in a RAID-Like system, so instead of reads and writes hitting one flash unit only in sequence, you get multiple reads/writes happening simultaneously, and massively increased bandwidth. That way you'd have the best of both worlds: 0 seek time, and high-speed data transfer, all in one package.

If you could find a system that would let you do it, you could simulate an array like that by RAID0'ing a load of USB2 memory sticks together. But XP/Vista won't let you do that and Linux is flaky at best. I've heard you can RAID anything in OSX, but I don't have a Mac to test that hypothesis.

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TGImages Grandpa Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Illinois, US Posts: 160	SSD is where I expect to be as soon as the price is a bit more competitive... however the market for larger drives like this being used in external cases or as secondary drives will be around for quite awhile yet.

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Anakha Supermodder Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Regina, SK, Canada Eh! Posts: 395	I still want to see standard flash modules connected in a RAID-Like system, so instead of reads and writes hitting one flash unit only in sequence, you get multiple reads/writes happening simultaneously, and massively increased bandwidth. That way you'd have the best of both worlds: 0 seek time, and high-speed data transfer, all in one package. If you could find a system that would let you do it, you could simulate an array like that by RAID0'ing a load of USB2 memory sticks together. But XP/Vista won't let you do that and Linux is flaky at best. I've heard you can RAID anything in OSX, but I don't have a Mac to test that hypothesis. __________________ Robert "Anakha" Johnston Going to Canada on Nov 28th! I'm going home!