Lightning SSDs Provide Crazy Fast Speeds

[exfileme]

Pliant's new Lightning line of SSDs provide super fast IOPS that seem... well, lightning fast.

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[jacobdrj]

About time someone had the guts to pull this type of SSD off.

 

[kyeana]

ib4 "can it play crysis?"

 

[kresso]

"The 3.5-inch LS model offers 300 GB and 1250 GB versions" That is quite a lot of space for a SSD. Gotta love typos.... or is it

 

[crisisavatar]

Finally some decent SSDs. All we need now are reasonable prices, perhaps 2-3GB per USD ?

 

[Onus]

And the price?

 

[jellico]

Give it a few years and SSDs are all we'll use anymore. The traditional magnetic platter drives will be relagated to large scale storage for backup, media servers and SANs.

 

[gwolfman]

Hopefully these are SATA-6G/SAS-6G since the current generation isn't capable of such speeds.

 

[Hanin33]

[citation][nom]jellico[/nom]Give it a few years and SSDs are all we'll use anymore. The traditional magnetic platter drives will be relagated to large scale storage for backup, media servers and SANs.[/citation]

sounds familiar... something about multi-processors/multi-core/multi-threaded applications taking over... back in 2003... and yet... here we are in 2009 and while dual core processors are all the rage, decent multi-threaded applications are still few and far between... we can't even get x64 fully adopted... make no mistake, magnetic spinning discs will be with us for even longer than expected...

 

[thackstonns]

and only 1.5 million dollars per GB. jk. But I bet they will be expensive!!!!

 

[Guest]

So, when can we expect another Toms speed record-breaking array?

 

[RADIO_ACTIVE]

[citation][nom]kresso[/nom]"The 3.5-inch LS model offers 300 GB and 1250 GB versions" That is quite a lot of space for a SSD. Gotta love typos.... or is it[/citation]
The press release says the following:

2. User capacities: LS (3.5-inch) = 300GB and 150GB; LB (2.5-inch) = 150 GB

So ya it is a typo its supposed to be 300GB and 150GB

 

[cybrcatter]

I can usually spot a Kevin Parrish news blog from title alone.
Only he would turn "crazy" into an adverb in a title.

 

[dingumf]

[citation][nom]kyeana[/nom]ib4 "can it play crysis?"[/citation]

its inb4 not ib4

 

[Area51]

when will they release the unit?

 

[kittle]

price?
availability?

Teasing only goes so far

 

[snotling]

is it based on a new controler? how does it handle 4k random writes?

 

[falchard]

No its multiple SSDs stacked ontop of each other.

Price: Your first born.

 

[mjblay]

I love the CEO's last name -- does he pronounce it A-Hole-a? Bet he's a jerk of a boss...

 

[Guest]

seems like someone put 3 flash based boards in a raid config!
Probably with a limitation to read from 2, and write to 1 board at a time.
That'd explain their high speeds.

If this is so, we could see 100GB SSD's for about $200; which is an awesome price!
But their battery life would also be nearly trippled compared to another SSD!

 

[seatrotter]

Pliant also claims that its Lightning SSDs offer unlimited writes...

...but is capped at 5TB.

First thought that came to my mind. Reminded me of the crap-tastic fiasco with the ISPs. hehehe

 

[hok]

Common let;s just throw out some numbers... I'll start.

$1500 for a 150 GB 3.5

 

[anamaniac]

[citation][nom]Hok[/nom]Common let;s just throw out some numbers... I'll start.$1500 for a 150 GB 3.5[/citation]

Sounds about right...

 

[backbydemand]

Price? Like Dr Evil said "One Million Dollars!!!!"

 

[Andraxxus]

Set a course for the nearest bank(to get the large amount of money needed for the 300GB version)Engage