why not just raid them and save 200 bucks...haha.

WarEagleAUwhy not just raid them and save 200 bucks...haha.

People arn't that smart... and neither is RIDATA.

wheres the 3.5 flash drives?

Pricing has not been announced for either part, but expect pricing of around $400 USD and $1,000 USD respectively.

SuperTalent's 32GB and 64GB 2.5" SSD with comparable specs (60MB/s, 45MB/s) are going for about $800 and $2000. Ridata's pricing would be a welcome drop in SSD prices.

Maybe we'll see a manufacturer with $200 pricing in the near future. I'd certainly pick up a pair of 32's at that price :D

Prices are coming down steadily, good :) I'd just use one of these for windows & swap and I'm afraid it wouldn't last long in that use :\

OnBoardPrices are coming down steadily, good :) I'd just use one of these for windows & swap and I'm afraid it wouldn't last long in that use :\

Wont last long?
It has a MTBF of 400+ years :p.
Speaking of which, how do they test that?

Its just expensive. Speed could be a little faster though.

ex_revenWont last long?
It has a MTBF of 400+ years :p.
Speaking of which, how do they test that?

Its just expensive. Speed could be a little faster though.

"The new 32GB SSD is aimed at the mobile sector -- as its 2.5" form factor suggests -- and has a MTBF of four million hours."

4,000,000h=166667days=456years, but that's not true at all, here's some reading

www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/perf/qual/specMTBF.html

Depends really how much it's got warranty, it should last that period, but as we all know even that isn't granted. Read somewhere someone using a Flash to IDE adapter and the Flash card as swap only lasted few weeks (can be wrong, but very short time anyways). We don't know until someone actually uses one intensely, how much punishment they can take.

Those flash cards are an indication how long the drive would last, if it didn't use error correcting mechanisms and writing on different parts of the memory all the time. Don't know if they help if the drive is almost full and it can write the new data on only a small part of the drive. Anyways I'm not convinced that these will last longer than regular hard drives. Sure they don't have anything mechanical braking, but the read/write cycles are limited still.

EDIT: here some more info from wiki

"Flash based SSDs also have several disadvantages:

Limited write cycles. Typical Flash storage will typically wear out after 100,000-300,000 write cycles, while high endurance Flash storage is often marketed with endurance of 1-5 million write cycles (many log files, file allocation tables, and other commonly used parts of the file system exceed this over the lifetime of a computer). Special file systems or firmware designs can mitigate this problem by spreading writes over the entire device, rather than rewriting files in place."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_state_drive

For a laptop this propably isn't a problem, read/writes are wery limited, but take a gaming machine and couple hours game session might do days worth of wear and tear to the disc (don't have any idea how much data is written, but as loading times are really long in Battlefield for example, I bet alot).

killatiawheres the 3.5 flash drives?

That's what I want to know!

OnBoardThose flash cards are an indication how long the drive would last, if it didn't use error correcting mechanisms and writing on different parts of the memory all the time. Don't know if they help if the drive is almost full and it can write the new data on only a small part of the drive. Anyways I'm not convinced that these will last longer than regular hard drives. Sure they don't have anything mechanical braking, but the read/write cycles are limited still.

I don't keep regular hard drives for their expected life :) A year later these drives will be half the cost and probably run twice as fast.

Also, I doubt those flash cards were using the top grade flash like the Wiki mentioned. Most are intended for camera or portable storage use.

JizzlerAlso, I doubt those flash cards were using the top grade flash like the Wiki mentioned. Most are intended for camera or portable storage use.

Are you sure?
I dont think even the high performance flash cards intended for cameras reach anywhere near 60mb/sec

What do you mean?

I was commenting on how the quote from storagereview.com was trying to compare an SSD intended for drive use (like the Ridata drives) vs. a card in a flash to IDE reader (in other words, "camera grade" CF, SD, etc).

That flash card could been low-grade, high-grade, etc, but probably not the endurance grade flash going into "hard drive" SSDs.

If it was that easy I could RAID-0 (4) 16GB CF cards for about $600 (with adapters) and end up with about the same speed and 64GB.

has a MTBF of four million hours.

A highly dubious statement.

JizzlerAlso, I doubt those flash cards were using the top grade flash like the Wiki mentioned. Most are intended for camera or portable storage use.

True, these most likely use the most highest grade flash, that also lasts as long as currently possible. That also explains the price difference with flashcards and SSD. My USB stick is 2 years old now, but still going strong, because I use it so rarely and little. I doubt it would be working anymore if I had used it almost daily :)