Solid-state drive sets speed record

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http://www.physorg.com/news139762252.html

-{ Quote: "Engineers and researchers at the IBM Hursley development lab in England and Almaden Research Center in California have set a record in storage speed, outperforming the current rate by more than 250 percent. By combining Flash solid-state technology and IBM's storage virtualization technology, the researchers were able to transfer data at more than 1 million Input/Output (I/O) per second." }-

[Franklin]

Blimey, that's nearly on par for speed as Hairy Coo's setup! ;D

Must admit that these SSD's will be the way to go quite soon?

[Meriadoc]

Indeed, I was quite perplexed when solid state gave way to 'disk' years ago. I think current trend will be around for a while yet though due to cost being driven down but I look forward to the day using SS making my disk utilities redundant.

[Hairy Coo]

The disadvantages are:

Limited write cycles – flash-memory cells will often wear out after 10,000-100,000 write cycles
Price
Capacity
Slower write speeds
Lower storage density

A good HDD setup, for example mine is 2 large HDDs in RAID 0 configuration, is faster in READ/WRITE than ordinary SSDs-apart from costing a fraction of comparable capacity SSDs.

Long way to go yet!