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News Samsung launches 500GB laptop drive

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by CardJoe, 7 Jan 2008.

  1. CardJoe

    CardJoe Freelance Journalist

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  2. DougEdey

    DougEdey I pwn all your storage

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    Nice, now we just need to know about power drain Consumption
     
  3. DXR_13KE

    DXR_13KE BananaModder

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    lots of portable porn.......
    i am also interested in the power consumption of it....
     
  4. wolff000

    wolff000 I am here to steal your secrets.

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

    TGImages Grandpa

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    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.
     
  6. Sark.inc

    Sark.inc What's a Dremel?

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    hdds will always be cheaper to make will they not?

    if so they will always be around then..
     
  7. sandys

    sandys Multimodder

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    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.
     
  8. DXR_13KE

    DXR_13KE BananaModder

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    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......
     
  9. TTmodder

    TTmodder Hammertime

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    Stop developing ordinary hdd´s .Gimme high performance long lasting cheap ssd´s NOW :sigh:
     
  10. Anakha

    Anakha Minimodder

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    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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