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Ironduke

12:21 AM on 21 September, 2009

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So this is what we will be using in our desktops in 3 or 4 years Time when they are cheaper.

speeds are lustful, you have to admit we have been bottlenecked with 7200rpm drives for So long

All Hail Nand Flash & SSD

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Peter

1:01 AM on 21 September, 2009

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Does the government car scrappage scheme apply? :)

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lifethroughalens

1:06 AM on 21 September, 2009

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Yep, in 10 years time this'll be the size of a stamp and they'll be giving them away like DVD's on the covers of PC Builders magazines.

Thanks heavens for rich, early adopters who pave the way for skin-flints like me :)

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smc8788

1:07 AM on 21 September, 2009

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@ Ironduke - Uh, we won't be using PCI-E drives, no. The only reason they used that is because the existing SATA/SAS interfaces don't offer enough bandwidth (only 300MB/sec vs the 2GB/sec of the 4 PCI-E lanes these drives offer)

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supersizeme

1:08 AM on 21 September, 2009

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I remember in 1992 (or something like that) I left school and started at an IT company. Pretty sure there were servers that required Winchester drives at about £3k. Oh they were about 10mb in size. It wont be long. I see these being used in some High End workstation for a year, then high end games machines, then 10 a penny. Cant wait

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Ryan131

1:42 AM on 21 September, 2009

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O_o ???

Expansion cards have been bootable for years! I remember the SCSI PCI-X card in my old NT4.0 box!

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ThaDon

8:52 AM on 21 September, 2009

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All they're gonna do is bring your PC's response times up to the same level as a 1997 Nokia 6210 hahaha!

Very nice though - i wonder how much i can get for a kidney ;)

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Keithe6e

12:08 PM on 21 September, 2009

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@ThaDon: All they're gonna do is bring your PC's response times up to the same level as a 1997 Nokia 6210 hahaha!

Yep, install Vista or Windows 7 after service pack, and watch you investment/gains magically disappear.

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xbrumster

12:39 PM on 21 September, 2009

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truly impressive...

In about 10 years time, we wont be needing any hdd space on personal computers.. cloud tech should save us all from buying expensive hardwares... hopefully

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betelgeus

2:07 PM on 21 September, 2009

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hope someone tests game level load times with this.crysis load in one second?

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Don Kanonjii

2:14 PM on 21 September, 2009

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Wow! only $4,000!? Signe me up for a dozen!

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In your dreams! how can they honestly expect to sell them?

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Peter

3:28 PM on 21 September, 2009

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Whack a couple of these in a Power Mac and Final cut users will like you. 1080p uncompressed is 1.5Gbps (1TB = 90 mins.)

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ThaDon

6:42 PM on 21 September, 2009

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I @Keith: I don't think even WINDOWS can stop these babies! A well-specced, well-patched, well defragged, well serviced XP machine and a well-used OSX machine are nearly neck and neck in terms of normal user usage in my experience, so anything that cuts out or eliminates the HDD bottleneck is very very welcome. THIS is the sort of technology that people should be pushing to adopt in my humble opinion...

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Digital Fury

6:19 AM on 22 September, 2009

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@Peter, you can do this today with a high-end Areca or HighPoint RAID-6 card and 8x HDs for way less money.

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betelgeus

4:02 PM on 22 September, 2009

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digital fury what are you on? that card gives a sustained read of about 100mb this is 750mb

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