16GB NAND FLASH SSD drive now available to consumers!

[fuzzieotter]

Now available at http://www.dvnation.com/nand-flash-ssd.html !
16GB is out now and this is the only place I've found it. Same cost per
GB as the i-RAM that ya'll might have heard of, but 4 times the size.
It has a convenient 2.5" laptop formfactor with PATA connector! Silent,
low power, instant seek time. Wow!

 

[Arno Wagner]

Now available at http://www.dvnation.com/nand-flash-ssd.html !
16GB is out now and this is the only place I've found it. Same cost per
GB as the i-RAM that ya'll might have heard of, but 4 times the size.
It has a convenient 2.5" laptop formfactor with PATA connector! Silent,
low power, instant seek time. Wow!

And expensive! $1999. Urgh!

And only 2,000,000 write cycles. I wonder how fast that breaks. Swap
area?

And 8MB read / 6MB write speeds. About 30% of what my two year old
4200rpm laptop drive does. The claimed 40% longer battery life in
laptops is obviously needed.

And 4-6 weeks time to delivery. More waiting.

No, I think I will stick with what I have. Thank you.

Arno

 

[timeOday]

And expensive! $1999. Urgh!

And only 2,000,000 write cycles. I wonder how fast that breaks. Swap
area?

Surely you gest. Last I checked, 2,000,000 is a pretty big number.
Especially because the controller remaps addresses to balance wear.

As for swap, just turn it off. It's especially pointless if your stable
store is more costly than your RAM.

And 8MB read / 6MB write speeds. About 30% of what my two year old
4200rpm laptop drive does.

I'll bet the latency is kick-butt though.

 

[Arno Wagner]

Surely you gest. Last I checked, 2,000,000 is a pretty big number.
Especially because the controller remaps addresses to balance wear.

Does it now? It does not say so on the product page. And 2,000,000
is pretty low, when you take into account that swap is not the
only problem area. E.g., FAT sectors are written much more often
than other sectors. Directory entries for log-siles are written
often.

As for swap, just turn it off. It's especially pointless if your stable
store is more costly than your RAM.

Unfortunately that is not true. You can swap on RAM-disk, but swap cannot
simply be replaced by RAM.

Arno

 

[timeOday]

Unfortunately that is not true. You can swap on RAM-disk, but swap cannot
simply be replaced by RAM.

Arno

On Linux you certainly can. Just comment the swap entries out of your
fstab and viola! no swap.