Comments on: Holly Hannah, Toshiba Envisions 512GB SSD Drives by 2009

By: daffyd

daffyd — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:35:26 +0000

dan schwartz

true geeks know what you’re suggesting is simply a big RAID drive.

now, make the software and hardware interface.

By: Dan Schwartz

Dan Schwartz — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:42:06 +0000

I have an 8 GB USB flash drive that I got on sale for $30.00 from eCost.

Why couldn’t several of these be packaged together and made to appear like a single drive? If the flash chips from 10 of these units were mounted on one PCB, that would be 80 GB of flash. 20 of them for 160 GB. It would just be a matter of the interface, directing access to the right range of LBA sectors to the right flash chip. Surely that is not an insurmountable problem, and could be done today for a lot less than $1200, no?

By: chad

chad — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:35:19 +0000

… but then how are we going to make broken hard drive sound music?!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2336690064206022054&q=hard+drive+song&ei=wTcQSOftFImyrgKPnu29BA&hl=en

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:51:20 +0000

I donno…It doesn’t seem that out of line to me? Just think about how far SSDs came in the past six months, why would a more compact process not be in the cards?

By: Kenny Gay

Kenny Gay — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:54:55 +0000

Toshiba also envisioned the HD-DVD format to win out.
We all know how that turned out.