From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 15 17:48:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB3616A423 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:48:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alexandre.delay@free.fr) Received: from smtp3-g19.free.fr (smtp3-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A880943D6B for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:47:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alexandre.delay@free.fr) Received: from Cerbere-de-Troyes.cerbere23.com (eur10-1-82-241-181-23.fbx.proxad.net [82.241.181.23]) by smtp3-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F5144115; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:47:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from artemis ([192.168.2.2]) by Cerbere-de-Troyes.cerbere23.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with SMTP id jBFHlVZB078070; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:47:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from alexandre.delay@free.fr) From: "Alexandre DELAY" To: "Ragnar Lonn" , "Bob Willcox" Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:47:49 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: <43A13E1B.9060106@gatorhole.se> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: HDD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:48:05 -0000 The only prices I found about this kind of product is at: http://www.psism.com/flashdrive.htm It is still expensive, but when I see the price of last year's usb flash disks compared to todays, the ratio is 1/2. I bet this will follow usb drives prices. I'm happy to see that some people are interrested by this topic. cheers > -----Message d'origine----- > De : owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org]De la part de Ragnar Lonn > Envoyé : jeudi 15 décembre 2005 10:58 > À : Bob Willcox > Cc : Alexandre DELAY; freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org > Objet : Re: HDD > > > Bob Willcox wrote: > > >On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 05:45:53PM +0100, Alexandre DELAY wrote: > > > > > >>Don't you think that flash drives are also a good solution? > >> > >>I am sure that it will be the future replacement for hard drive disks. > >>see http://www.memtech.com/ for example > >> > >>With no buffer and 1ms access delay you minimise write > failures. It is an > >>interresting solution. > >> > >> > > > >Hmm, I see no prices listed on the Memtech web site (did I simply > >miss them?). So, what does a 96GB flash drive cost in comparison to a > >magnetic disk hard drive of similar capacity? > > > >Stories of the impending demise of magnetic disk drives have been > >circulating since at least the late '70s (back then I seem to remember > >that bubble and/or CCD memory was to spell their doom). So far, it > >appears that nothing has come along that has been able to compete on a > >cost per byte basis. Flash memory might be the technology to do it, but > >somehow I doubt it. > > > > > > I like to build silent PCs on my spare time and avoiding any moving > parts is of course > a good way to achieve this goal. This makes me very interested in any > memory-based > hard disk replacements but so far, they seem to be hideously expensive. > You have to > pay over $1000 for 8 GB of storage. Multiply that with 10 or so and > you're likely > to have the cost of that 96GB flash drive. > > I too thought that memory disks would take over some five years ago or > so, but > conventional hard disk technology has managed to stay ahead all the > time, providing > lots more storage per dollar and often also throughput rates almost > matching that > of the solid state memories. I think we will see a shift sometime, but > I've stopped > trying to predict it. Hard disk technology has such a big lead that it > may take a > while yet, I think. > > /Ragnar > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >