Samsung Solid State Drive

[thecoldone06]

What does everyone think about the Samsung Solid State Hard Drive's? They need to get the capacity up as it is now from 4 to 32 GB but it would be nice to not have moving parts in the drives. What do you all think?

 

[Simmy]

They sound like a step in the right direction to me. Hopefully the prices will drop considerably in the next couple of years.

I love the idea of a truly silent PC too

 

[The Goatboy]

I actually just heard about this today but haven't had time to research it yet. sounds like a great idea, but from what I saw the price is crazy right now. like you said simmy, give it some time and I think it will really take off.

 

[greggh]

Ive worked on a few solid state drives. They are incredibly fast, especially at booting. They are also very quite. Not much else to say about them. I didnt really notice anything else different about working with them.

 

[thecoldone06]

I didnt really notice anything else different about working with them.

I would say thats a good thing. If they want it to take off, they would want it to work like any other drive out there. They are pretty expensive but give it a year or so and I bet they come down considerably. I don't know how they would have a totally quiet PC. It would be awesome if they could but if anything the processor will always need a fan. The faster they make them the more heat they generate.

 

[Blues]

I notice they seem to be a prompted upgrade on blade servers which makes sense as they will be quite and fast and I suspect as cooler or cooler then thier non solid state counter part. I believe they have them in up around 40GB just they might not be commercially avialable.

 

[greggh]

I would say thats a good thing. If they want it to take off, they would want it to work like any other drive out there. They are pretty expensive but give it a year or so and I bet they come down considerably. I don't know how they would have a totally quiet PC. It would be awesome if they could but if anything the processor will always need a fan. The faster they make them the more heat they generate.

Liquid cooling for the CPU and GPU, silent power supply (many exist,) solid state drives. Should be pretty quite?

 

[thecoldone06]

yeah i thought about liquid cooling after i posted. that would be a pretty quiet machine.

 

[Blues]

Since we are side tracked already on the subject of liquid cooling I have had some people I know use it and it worked great before it failed. These were on over clocked PCs and the failed was a water block or something that ended the flow of the liquid. The result was PC ashes so I have been somewhat afriad to give it a go. I also thought they were more expensive and my latest machine has 1x 80mm(front) 3x 60mm(back) the CPU has I think an 80mm and the PS I believe has an 80mm in it would have to check. With all those fans this thing is amazingly quiet my laptop is over 3 years old and louder than it and my PS3 is also louder. I can barely sleep with the laptop or PS3 on but I can sleep just fine with the Media Center on. In the end I have yet to find a need to go through all the steps to make it quieter even for my loudest machine my old desktop which had a CPU fan that ran at 35 decibel(sp?). Enough rambling here is the biggest solid state drive I could find for sale http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2013240636+1421430849&name=128GB a 128GB so they are large enough to me in terms of capacity but price is on the insane side there but imagine a nice raid with a few of those.

 

[thecoldone06]

4000 - 4500 dollars...your right, that is on the insane side.