Buffalo Unveils 256GB IDE-Based SSDs

[jseatremblay]

Next up from Buffalo, a 128gb Serial port thumb drive!

 

[Userremoved]

[citation][nom]jseatremblay[/nom]Next up from Buffalo, a 128gb Serial port thumb drive![/citation]
Sold at 2000$

 

[Userremoved]

Heres what you can get for that price:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220702
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220700
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834127113

 

[WarraWarra]

For consumers with low budgets, this may be a cheap way to increase performance

WOW US$1200.00 is not a cheap budget well you can get a 256GB SSD PCIE card for that price running at Read: up to 750MB/s Write: up to 500MB/s

WHY USE IDE ??? PART OF A OLD 2004 PC ????
CAN YOU EVEN STILL GET IDE HARDWARE ANYWHERE ?????

OCZ Z-Drive R2 P84 OCZSSDPX-ZD2P84256G PCI-E 256GB PCI Express MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
    * $1,195.00
    * $5.99 Shipping

    *  PCI-E
    *  256GB
    *  PCI Express

    * Sequential Access - Read: up to 750MB/s
    * Sequential Access - Write: up to 500MB/s
    * Power Consumption (Active): 12W

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=40000636%204023&IsNodeId=1&Description=pci%20ssd&name=%241000%20-%20%241250

 

[wittermark]

thats because its Buffalo, a stupid company that should have gone out of business years ago.

 

[Tamz_msc]

Who cares about IDE any more?I have got 2 IDE HDDs failing in a space of 6 months of usage.

 

[dEAne]

Are we going backwards?

 

[Userremoved]

[citation][nom]WarraWarra[/nom]WOW US$1200.00 is not a cheap budget well you can get a 256GB SSD PCIE card for that price running at Read: up to 750MB/s Write: up to 500MB/sWHY USE IDE ??? PART OF A OLD 2004 PC ????CAN YOU EVEN STILL GET IDE HARDWARE ANYWHERE ?????Code :OCZ Z-Drive R2 P84 OCZSSDPX-ZD2P84256G PCI-E 256GB PCI Express MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) * $1,195.00 * $5.99 Shipping * PCI-E * 256GB * PCI Express * Sequential Access - Read: up to 750MB/s * Sequential Access - Write: up to 500MB/s * Power Consumption (Active): 12Whttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] %20%241250[/citation]
For that price you could buy a new PC!

 

[g00fysmiley]

whats funny is this was answered in the 9th comment. this will probably not find its way into many actual laptops but rather find its way into industrial use where alot of things manafactured with ide only into it would cost more money than many people myself included will make in a year. so yea when replacing a hardrive and bringing up the boot to restore machinery this is in fact going to have a maret... now a consumer end person putting this in a older laptop i agree that would be pretty retarded

 

[dark_lord69]

"For consumers with low budgets, this may be a cheap way to increase performance without buying a new motherboard and processor."

"This particular drive will be priced at $1,220 when it hits the market"

OK, on what planet is it cheaper to pay that much for a hard drive than upgrade the motherboard, CPU and RAM. Hell, forget the upgrades you could buy a whole computer for that price.

 

[wayneepalmer]

dark-lord69

Like I said, there are industrial usages for older tech that just can't be replaced with new hardware due to proprietary or specialized software/hardware issues.

Some of these systems cost tens of thousands of dollars and either can't be replaced or the replacement costs tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars - which usually can't be justified in this economy.

I just remembered we have an old Sheffield Indicorder (precision roundness and surface profile measuring device) here that used an 8088 cpu which we upgraded a couple years ago to (i think) a 286. We went from a tractor drive printer to a bubble jet and from an 8" monochrome grey/black monitor to 15" CRT AND have a small HDD verses (2) 3.5 floppies

We spent a couple thousand to upgrade it (EBAY parts and a technician visit).

Replacing it would cost over $50,000. It still works - most of the time.

 

[Userremoved]

[citation][nom]wayneepalmer[/nom]dark-lord69 Like I said, there are industrial usages for older tech that just can't be replaced with new hardware due to proprietary or specialized software/hardware issues. Some of these systems cost tens of thousands of dollars and either can't be replaced or the replacement costs tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars - which usually can't be justified in this economy.I just remembered we have an old Sheffield Indicorder (precision roundness and surface profile measuring device) here that used an 8088 cpu which we upgraded a couple years ago to (i think) a 286. We went from a tractor drive printer to a bubble jet and from an 8" monochrome grey/black monitor to 15" CRT AND have a small HDD verses (2) 3.5 floppiesWe spent a couple thousand to upgrade it (EBAY parts and a technician visit).Replacing it would cost over $50,000. It still works - most of the time.[/citation]
This is made for netbooks and other devices like it but the price tag is horrible. Sure if it was made for professional equipment then it might a little better. Plus the IDE cable caps the transfer rate at the normal HHDs speeds.

 

[g00fysmiley]

[citation][nom]Userremoved[/nom]This is made for netbooks and other devices like it but the price tag is horrible. Sure if it was made for professional equipment then it might a little better. Plus the IDE cable caps the transfer rate at the normal HHDs speeds.[/citation]


I am hopign that this was actually initially made for industrial use and that some reporter somewhere decided that it was meant for an ssd for older laptops... if the company made these with laptop users in mind then they may have accidently stepped in a gold mine .. sucess by complete failure