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8GB Solid State IDE drive?
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:25 am
by HONkUS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820208064
Anyone seen or used these? I wonder what the speeds are like?
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:41 am
by Dragon_Cooler
suhweet!!!!!!!! Well i remember reading reviews on the ram drives, and the speeds werent that great, but again its pci. This aught to be interesting!!!
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:58 am
by bubba
even if it was ungodly fast, I can't get past the price
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:18 am
by bigblockmatt
ya, that price is insane...not worth it yet.
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:49 am
by Sovereign
Dumbness. Too expensive. And come on, that thing would push IDE past its limits. SSDs are to take advantage of the bandwidth offered by SATAII....
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:49 pm
by infinitevalence
I tested something like this a few years ago... now im sure changes have been made but the Flash drive i tested at the time toped out at about 10mb a sec.
just not fast enough for a OS drive.
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:44 pm
by HONkUS
Yeah I thought it was kinda odd for it to be IDE when SATA is the way to go these days, I bought the Ultimate something or another DIY computer thingy magazine that PC Gamer puts out every fall and it has 600$ worth of newegg coupons in it and one of them was for free shipping on these things, I wish I could find a review on one somewhere.
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:56 pm
by Kerii
I'm still waiting for the 64GB PQI SATA drive from a few months back.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/pqi- ... for-august
It was supposed to be out last month but I've seen no sign of it.
Not much better at only 32mbps, but these weren't exactly made for performance in the normal sense.