RunCore Makes 1TB SATA 6 Gbps 3.5-inch SSD

[chickenhoagie]

for the low low price of!....YOUR SOULLLL >

 

[jblack]

[citation][nom]gnesterenko[/nom]no current raid tech supports TRIM.[/citation]

Intel does on select motherboards.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2010/03/23/intel-releases-trim-for-raid/1

 

[Guest]

Sounds great, but only for those really rich people. 1TB just isn't that popular for consumers yet.

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]rubix_1011[/nom]Tell power companies to stop causing outages to memory manufacturers.[/citation]
tell the companies like Toshiba to spend some money and upgrade their fail-safe systems

 

[dEAne]

I'm I reading this right 1TB SATA 6 Gbps?!!!!

Dream come true.

 

[gege]

The first thing that came at my mind when I saw the title

There's no pricing set yet, but expect to pay at least a dollar per gigabyte.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

When these come down to $500 or less, I'll buy. Yes, I can wait until like 2012 or whatever.

 

[rebturtle]

[citation][nom]mavroxur[/nom]Because the 3.5" to 5.25" adapter tray has already been invented.
1. Buy adapter tray for $5
2.Install SSD into 5.25" bay
3. ???
4. PROFIT![/citation]

I'm so glad the underpants gnomes are still around to explain business economics!

:lol:

 

[catchercradle]

Can't see me needing it for a while- not till linux distros get so bloated that I will be installing from a Blu Ray that I have downloaded and burned and that will need my adsl to run a bit faster than it does at present..... I know Suse can come on a dual layer dvd now. Does all this seem familiar to other oldies who can remember connecting to BBs via 28K dialup or slower?

 

[the_crippler]

[citation][nom]JOSHSKORN[/nom]When these come down to $500 or less, I'll buy. Yes, I can wait until like 2012 or whatever.[/citation]

2012? But...but...we'll all be dead then!

Actually, when I get my hands on a multi-TB SSD for a price I can cope with, I can only assume that's its the apocalypse anyway.

 

[Guest]

1TB ssd $3,000-$4,000 vs 3TB HDD $230(77/1tb) Prices from newegg at the time of writing. Thats ~45 times as expensive.

The day SSDs replace HDDS are still long off into the future, IF ever. HDDs will always be cheaper to produce, they are much simpler. Eliminating the common parts you have a couple platters VS having to make 100-200 memory dies, stack them up 1-8 high into memory chips, then package them, and put them onto a board. Not counting the controller(both have controllers but the ssd one is much more complex). That process will always be many times more $$.

SSDs just make no sense for consumer media storage. They have their place, but mass storage isnt it, and likely NEVER will be it. Maybe if for some wierd reason media files stayed static in size. But that will never happen, games will continue to get much larger, media files will get larger etc.

 

[eddieroolz]

Next thing you know, its price comes at $10k. It's possible!

 

[jbo5112]

Current starting price for SandForce based drives is about $1.67/GB. The SandForce chips support Trim, and some software RAID supports it. It's the Hardware RAID that shows up in the SCSI system (which uses a 'PUNCH' command) that has trouble with the ATA 'TRIM' command. I don't see any reason why this wouldn't support TRIM.

Unfortunately, $/GB tends to climb with capacity. OCZ makes a 480GB 3.5" drive for $1,200-$1,300. I would speculate $2,500-$3,000. A 2x2.5 drive system crammed into a 3.5 bay would cost $3,500 for 980GB and run off of 2 SATA-II ports, which would be better for some.

RAID-0 on 4 smaller SSD's should have failure rates (not counting DOA) only slightly higher than a single, large SSD. you can buy a 5.25 to 6x2.5 adapter (iStarUSA BPU-126-SA) and run 6x240GB SSD's (1.44TB) in RAID-0 for ~$2600. A 4 drive (980GB) system would cost about $1,700. Just make sure your RAID system supports TRIM.