Good for Seagate, I look forward to this, especially if they can get it faster then two RAID 0-ed Raptors, maybe I can put two of those in RAID 0 and have Windows boot in 1 second!

russianboyGood for Seagate, I look forward to this, especially if they can get it faster then two RAID 0-ed Raptors, maybe I can put two of those in RAID 0 and have Windows boot in 1 second!

Faster than the Raptor? The SSDs are hundreds of times faster than anything we have had up to this point.
Think of an HDD almost as fast as RAM!

It makes me feel bad about spending 200$ on a 150GB Raptor.. but right now, the price is way too damn high.

The good news is, storage will increase and prices will come down. If Seagate gets on board, you can bet it wont be too much longer before the other companies come calling. This is terrific news and pretty soon, SATA will not be used as much as SSD :)

WarEagleAUThe good news is, storage will increase and prices will come down. If Seagate gets on board, you can bet it wont be too much longer before the other companies come calling. This is terrific news and pretty soon, SATA will not be used as much as SSD :)

SATA ?) SSDs are either SATA or IDE connected, it will be used more :P

that sounds like a good upgrade since my 60gb maxtor is failing :D make them cheap seagate i wanna use those 2 sata slots on my mobo :D

WeerFaster than the Raptor? The SSDs are hundreds of times faster than anything we have had up to this point.
Think of an HDD almost as fast as RAM!

I know what your saying, but traditional hard drives are still faster at some operations, if you look up a review you will see what I mean. But it is true they are much faster at almost everything and use much less power.

GSG-9I know what your saying, but traditional hard drives are still faster at some operations, if you look up a review you will see what I mean. But it is true they are much faster at almost everything and use much less power.

No, they are not faster at anything. If you learn about seek times you will see what I mean.
What they DO have is bandwidth, which is something that can easily be hightened with RAID 0.

SSD's are slow at writing data. HDD's are not.

theonetruewillSSD's are slow at writing data. HDD's are not.

that im sure will be fixed b4 2010 im sure that the old old HDD didnt right to well either :D

Im not even going to start this conversation again, Right now Ram is faster than flash access memory and supposedly that is faster than a hard drive do to access times and hard drives having moving parts.

www.hothardware.com/articles/Gigabyte_IRAM_Storage_Device1/?page=3

a Gigabyte ram disk (MUCH faster than SSD's) has much WORSE buffered reads all thie time, no matter what than traditional harddrives. You can go look up other reviews, the SSD technology will at one point surpass traditional drives, but right now they just have not. Im not going to go dig around for the SSD vs Raid.traditional drive reviews on this but Raid/Traditional Drives still has advantages over SSDs. Look it up next time.

Apparently you are thinking of SSD reviews. i-Ram blows away the Raptor in RAID 0

www.matbe.com/divers/zoom.php?img=000000059343.jpg

www.matbe.com/divers/zoom.php?img=000000059345.jpg

Look at a bench that has buffered reads listed, the i-ram gets scores that are half as good as raptors in raid 0. Which is only because the tech. is still in the first generation, im sure when it matures it will have faster buffered reads. My only point is that SSDs dont beat traditional drives at everything, yet. :]

Well, actually it is a pity that there is no "real world" benchmarks. These scores don't really tell us much. If you've ever looked at the raid 0 benchmarks for desktop machines, you'll agree that raid 0 is worthless for a desktop environment (short of just costing you a lot more for no real gain). The only use for raid 0 really is for applications that use it.

My only interest (and why I found this thread) is to figure out if it is worth investing in a small piece of fast storage of some sort to make my video processing go faster. I'm still not convinced it is worth the price.

Too bad a ram drive would be even more limited (in size). :/