Samsung breakthrough packs 128 GB on one flash memory card

SciFi.com ^ | 10/23/07 | Charlie White - Gizmodo

[George W. Bush]

Have they ever solved the problem that after you had written to the same spot on the drive a number of times that spot was now no longer viable? I remember that being an issue early on; it’s why I don’t own any of these devices.

They're generally using a round-robin scheme for allocation to ensure even wear of the individual sectors now. Pretty much true across the board: PDAs, cameras, USB drives, these new solid state hard drives.

That was mostly an issue in the first generation models.

[martin_fierro]

Scrumptious Hardware Ping

[BlueMondaySkipper]

I’ll have the one on the right with a side of shrimp fried rice :)

And I'll take the one on the left, leaving the one in the middle for Keith Olberman...

[HamiltonJay]

promising such features as instant-on, smaller size, less heat and enhanced energy efficiency

I had all this in 1983...

[ErnBatavia]

interesting link....I may have to mull that one over.

[gridlock]

I Adore My 64.

[ShadowAce]

[Centurion2000]

Sadly the Library of Congress has no plans to digitize their collection.

Cripes, why the hell not??? Talk about making it immune to any Alexdria issues.

[ShadowAce]

Check out Fusion I/O

[antiRepublicrat]

They will end up calling it i-Gig Initially, it will cost over 500 dollars. Then they will realize they made a huge mistake and will lower the pri...

You're actually close. Apple is probably Samsung's biggest NAND customer, and has a long-term, high-volume contract with them.

[zeugma]

OMG, I want one!

[AFreeBird]

No he's not. The earlier FLASH memory chips suffered from a relatively short MTBF of R/W cycles.

Newer chips are addressing that shortcoming. This IS exciting news. I wonder what their DRAM is going to be like. 1TB of RAM on the desktop would be most welcome.

[KoRn]

Nice!! The memory cards are impressive too!

[AFreeBird]

Sweet looking card.(the model holding it isn’t too bad either) And the specs are fantastic, but at $30/GB, the 640GB card will run you a cool $19,200. Doesn’t look like I’ll be picking one up when they come out. :(

[ShadowAce]

Doesn’t look like I’ll be picking one up when they come out. :(

heh. That's my thinking! :)

[SunkenCiv]

Don’t Forget to Back Up Your Brain
Fox News | Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Corinna Underwood
Posted on 11/16/2007 11:27:29 AM EST by Ancient Drive
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1926751/posts

[SergeiRachmaninov]

Access times are faster.

As I understand it, although the access times are near instantaneous, the read times are quite slow. In other words, you get the first byte in a hurry, but it takes a long time to read a substantial number of consecutive bytes, so long that these devices are not suitable replacements for HDs in most applications even if the limited writes issue was resolved.

[SergeiRachmaninov]

I've often thought that my Commodore64 was my most satisfactory computer.

Of course, I demanded little from it -- really sort of a memory typewriter -- but that was real word processing, even if it wasn't typesetting.

And this it did beautifully with a shareware program. I am not sure that it ever hung even once, and I certainly spent no time whatever fretting with issues of any sort. It was very easy and obvious how to get it to do the few (with my application) things that it did. No viruses. No manuals needed. No problems. No updates. Life was simple, but sweet.

[Myrddin]

Access times for FLASH memory are faster than CD or DVD ROMs when used in a navigation application. Sentence fragments are a bad way to convey an idea.

BTW, I was just at my local computer surplus retailer. He moves a lot of laptops that have been turned over by big corporations in an upgrade campaign. Most of them have smaller hard disks than are currently supplied with new laptops. He does a brisk business in updating them to a larger disk and more RAM to make them relevant. He was just informed that Seagate and Western Digital are bailing out of the parallel IDE laptop drive business in February. That's not good news given that 90% of current laptops use an IDE drive. The "also ran" suppliers e.g. Fujitsu may remain in the game, but he doesn't want any part of their products. He was financially burned by a run of bad 20GB laptop drives from Fujitsu. He ate the full retail value of over 300 of those bad drives.