Rob Williams
09-13-2007, 02:35 AM
From our front-page news: In this day and age, 128GB for a hard-drive seems incredibly low. For good reason, since the "smallest" most people will buy nowadays is 320GB and 750GB are only $200. However, this 128GB is special. It's a solid-state drive that has flash-based innards, which means it's far more durable than a regular hard drive, but is it faster?
According to the specs, this drive should top out at 60MB/s read and 40MB/s write. Where is does excel though is with latencies. But is that little gain worth it? Well, considering the fact that the drive retails for $4,600... that might be a question you have to make.
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128GB of fast flash doesn't come cheap, though. When the SATA25 hits Newegg and other online retailers at the end of the month, it's expected to sell for a whopping $4600, or roughly $36 per gigabyte. For web servers, $4600 for a 128GB solid-state drive is a lot cheaper than the equivalent in DRAM, so the SATA25 may actually be a pretty good deal.
Source: Tech Report (http://techreport.com/articles.x/13163)
According to the specs, this drive should top out at 60MB/s read and 40MB/s write. Where is does excel though is with latencies. But is that little gain worth it? Well, considering the fact that the drive retails for $4,600... that might be a question you have to make.
<table align="center"><tbody><tr><td>http://techgage.com/images/news/super_talent_128gb_tech_report_091307.jpg</td></tr></tbody></table>
128GB of fast flash doesn't come cheap, though. When the SATA25 hits Newegg and other online retailers at the end of the month, it's expected to sell for a whopping $4600, or roughly $36 per gigabyte. For web servers, $4600 for a 128GB solid-state drive is a lot cheaper than the equivalent in DRAM, so the SATA25 may actually be a pretty good deal.
Source: Tech Report (http://techreport.com/articles.x/13163)