No more moving part: Another SSD announcement

PQI and Samsung already announced SSD on their product lines and some are already available for purchase if you want to pay more than $1000 for 16GB.

Now SandDisk also introduces SSD in the first half of this year for reasonable price and performance. That is if they keep the promise. Remmber i-RAM price? And how long did it take before it was show up on Froogle. And you can't find Samsung SSD anywhere unless you're willing to pay for a ultra mini-computer.

Anyway here is announcement and quick spec.

• Availability: First half of 2007
• Price: Around $600 - willing to pay $500, maybe $550.
• MTBF: Two million hours - As formal SanDisk USB thumbdrive owner, it's too good to be true.
• Speed: 62MB/sec
• IO: 7,000

And compare to my i-RAM

• Availability: Now
• Price: Around $110 (i-RAM) + $360 (4x 1GB RAM) = $470
• MTBF: Less than 300,000 hours.¹
• Speed: Around 130MB/sec on my slower machine. Other got better result on faster machine.
• IO: 15,000 - Again my slow machine could not take any advantage on its faster IO

¹According to the Corsair Value SeLecT brochure, the MTBF for their RAM is 300,000 hours. The document is outdated but I think i-RAM will fail first than one of four memory module. Anyway, the MTBF for i-RAM with four 1GB modules should be less than 300,000 hours.