HDD

[Alexandre DELAY]

The only prices I found about this kind of product is at:
http://www.psism.com/flashdrive.htm

It is still expensive, but when I see the price of last year's usb flash
disks compared to todays, the ratio is 1/2. I bet this will follow usb
drives prices.

I'm happy to see that some people are interrested by this topic.

cheers

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : owner-freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org]De la part de Ragnar Lonn
> Envoyé : jeudi 15 décembre 2005 10:58
> À : Bob Willcox
> Cc : Alexandre DELAY; freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
> Objet : Re: HDD
>
>
> Bob Willcox wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 05:45:53PM +0100, Alexandre DELAY wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Don't you think that flash drives are also a good solution?
> >>
> >>I am sure that it will be the future replacement for hard drive disks.
> >>see http://www.memtech.com/ for example
> >>
> >>With no buffer and 1ms access delay you minimise write
> failures. It is an
> >>interresting solution.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Hmm, I see no prices listed on the Memtech web site (did I simply
> >miss them?). So, what does a 96GB flash drive cost in comparison to a
> >magnetic disk hard drive of similar capacity?
> >
> >Stories of the impending demise of magnetic disk drives have been
> >circulating since at least the late '70s (back then I seem to remember
> >that bubble and/or CCD memory was to spell their doom). So far, it
> >appears that nothing has come along that has been able to compete on a
> >cost per byte basis. Flash memory might be the technology to do it, but
> >somehow I doubt it.
> >
> >
>
> I like to build silent PCs on my spare time and avoiding any moving
> parts is of course
> a good way to achieve this goal. This makes me very interested in any
> memory-based
> hard disk replacements but so far, they seem to be hideously expensive.
> You have to
> pay over $1000 for 8 GB of storage. Multiply that with 10 or so and
> you're likely
> to have the cost of that 96GB flash drive.
>
> I too thought that memory disks would take over some five years ago or
> so, but
> conventional hard disk technology has managed to stay ahead all the
> time, providing
> lots more storage per dollar and often also throughput rates almost
> matching that
> of the solid state memories. I think we will see a shift sometime, but
> I've stopped
> trying to predict it. Hard disk technology has such a big lead that it
> may take a
> while yet, I think.
>
>   /Ragnar
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to
> "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>