Seagate Announces Demo of 12 Gb/s Solid-State Drives

[Guest]

Following Hitachi, Seagate also confirmed that it will be showcasing 12Gb/s SSDs at the SCSI Trade Association’s Technical Showcase on May 9.

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[CaedenV]

holy cow! 2 years; That has got to be the shortest lived interconnect lifespan ever created.

 

[AndrewK1]

And I thought my Vertex 3 was good...

 

[Marco925]

holy cow! 2 years; That has got to be the shortest lived interconnect lifespan ever created.

What are you talking about? SAS 2.0 (6gbps) was introduced in 2009. by the time this is released it'll be 4 years.

Which is roughly the same lifespan as SAS 1.0 (3gbps)

 

[pedro_mann]

So do we get a jump in SATA speed as well, as an offshoot?

 

[Guest]

dayum!

 

[frostyfireball]

At the rate SSDs are improving, might aswell skip SAS and SATA 12Gb/s and go straight up to 18 or 24Gb/s.

 

[wigglerthefish]

Hmm the speeds should be up enough for when PCM memory hits the consumer market, yes?

 

[capt_taco]

That's really impressive, but at the same time ... I'll be interested in SSDs at 3GB/s, 6GB/s or 12 GB/s at exactly the same time the price comes down by about two-thirds.

 

[andy_newton]

In mere 3 years, the seagate will die, just like 7200.11 and 7200.12 barracudas.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]andy_newton[/nom]In mere 3 years, the seagate will die, just like 7200.11 and 7200.12 barracudas.[/citation]

Do you have any information, besides that two almost completely unrelated devices failed, to support your claim?

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]Wigglerthefish[/nom]Hmm the speeds should be up enough for PCM memory if it hits the consumer market, yes?[/citation]

Fixed it for you. Unless you have some inside knowledge on companies that will manufacture PCM devices, let's not get ahead of ourselves and assume that it will be here at all. Also, Flash still has tons of room for improvement where performance is concerned (OCZ has a 12TB 7.2GB/s max sequential PCIe SSD and a slower, but higher capacity at 16TB, 6GB/s max sequential PCIe SSD), so it probably won't get replaced any time soon, that is unless another technology with similar or greater performance comes out with lower cost per GB.

 

[Guest]

Now i hope they really start to drop price per GB.

 

[devBunny]

What price this colossus? Should I start saving now or be buying lottery tickets like a madbun?

 

[josejones]

SATA Express SSD's 16Gb/s

SSDs to get faster with SATA Express
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2012/03/08/ssds-faster-sata-express/1

SATA 4, 12 Gb/s (SATAe 16 Gb/s) for SSD's?
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/280390-32-sata-satae

 

[Marco925]

[citation][nom]andy_newton[/nom]In mere 3 years, the seagate will die, just like 7200.11 and 7200.12 barracudas.[/citation]
What'd seagate ever do to you?

 

[hannibal]

[citation][nom]snkmad[/nom]Now i hope they really start to drop price per GB.[/citation]

Well these are enterprice versions so no price drop in there... It is guite easy to see that these will cost 3-6$ GB at least, propably more...

 

[__-_-_-__]

my house will cost less then one of those drives.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]__-_-_-__[/nom]my house will cost less then one of those drives.[/citation]

Cheap house then. Very cheap house.

 

[nforce4max]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]Cheap house then. Very cheap house.[/citation]

What is wrong with having a cheaper home? Not everyone can cough up $300k-$500k for a "normal" house.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]nforce4max[/nom]What is wrong with having a cheaper home? Not everyone can cough up $300k-$500k for a "normal" house.[/citation]

I didn't say that there's anything wrong with it; I simply made an observation. Drives like these are unlikely to cost more than a few thousand dollars.

 

[jerm1027]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]I didn't say that there's anything wrong with it; I simply made an observation. Drives like these are unlikely to cost more than a few thousand dollars.[/citation]
If they slap an Apple sticker on it, it will cost as much as a house.

 

[Belardo]

[citation][nom]frostyfireball[/nom]At the rate SSDs are improving, might aswell skip SAS and SATA 12Gb/s and go straight up to 18 or 24Gb/s.[/citation] screw that, we should just go straight to SATA 64GB/s! Today!

 

[Belardo]

... I bet once we hit 64GB/s SSD drives, it will be SOOO fast, that it'll turn back time.

You reach to press the power button on your computer... and before you even touch it - your PC is on and you're already browsing porn.

 

[kyee7k]

I'm still waiting for Western Digital to release consumer-level SSDs.