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The SanDisk 32GB Solid State Disk could really change things
Today I came across an article about a new 32GB solid state 2.5″ SATA disk from SanDisk. This could potentially be a quite extraordinary development. Compared to current hard drives, it’s faster, quieter, uses less power, has much faster random access times and doesn’t have any moving parts. All very positive sounding things, the down side is that it’s lower capacity and costs quite a bit more than current harddrives. I’ll be watching these drives closely and am definitely looking forward to seeing real world performance numbers. There’s no data on write performance and the limited write cycles of flash media could be an issue for really heavy write intensive applicaions.
This entry was posted by Kimbro Staken on Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 at 11:25 pm and is filed under General, Mac OS X. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comments will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.
March 14th, 2007 at 2:18 am
There is a PDF with specs at the end of a few links on the SanDisk site; write looks quite nice compared to normal spinning disks and for a database the IOPS number is very appealling. Considering the number of database that are smaller than 32GB these would be nice in a server.
http://www.sandisk.com/Assets/File/OEM/Manuals/SSD_Family_brochure_80-11-01400_Rev3_0307.pdf
March 14th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Ahh, I looked at that but obviously didn’t look close enough. The write speeds aren’t bad, but there’s not really any gain there compared to a 3.5″ disk. That’s a little disappointing, but at least it looks reasonable. Hopefully we’ll see some real world comparisons on this soon.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Disk based drives are more limited in speed increases because they are mechanical machines, the fact that a first gen product like this is as fast as it is is quite promising. I can’t wait to get my hands on one to test out with a database. Does anyone know where they can be bought?