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Post by ivory on Jan 5, 2007 11:27:49 GMT -6
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Post by nancyhfrga on Jan 5, 2007 11:49:58 GMT -6
Awesome! Thanks for bringing over, Ivory!  |
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Post by ivory on Jan 5, 2007 12:01:43 GMT -6
Nancy:
I believe this is the future product for not only PCs but also for data servers.
IMO
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Post by St1ck on Jan 5, 2007 13:56:42 GMT -6
Calculations deal with CPU cycles only. If the process uses "offline" storage to temporaily house or receive input to the computation it would benefit from solid state media.
Also memory that would be paged off to disk would benefit from solid state drives.
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Post by ivory on Jan 5, 2007 17:44:24 GMT -6
During Holidays - Zune misses top-10 list of holiday devices sold Apple sold 64 percent of players, Sandisk 22 percent, and Microsoft 3 percent www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/05/HNzunexmas_1.html32GB SSD overview Specs (Not rated) 7-Jan-07 09:45 am SanDisk says it’s SSD offers a sustained read rate of 62MB per second and a random read rate of 7,000 inputs/outputs per second (IOPS) for a 512-byte transfer – over 100 times faster than most hard disk drives. The company claims that a laptop equipped with its SSD can boot Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise in as little as 35 seconds and boasts an average file access rate of 0.12 milliseconds, compared with 55 seconds and 19 milliseconds respectively for today’s standard hard drives. Longevity and wear issues with flash have also been addressed, according to SanDisk, it has improved its technology and wear-levelling algorithm to give the device a mean time between failure (MTBF) of two million hours, or almost 230 years. |
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