Samsung Ships 1TB drives for Laptops.

[Geek-9pm]

Just this week they started shipping huge drives  for laptops. Click on link of the full story and way a terabyte is new for laptops.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217488/Samsung_ships_1TB_internal_hard_drive_for_laptops

[Salmon Trout]

Toshiba and Western Digital already offer 1TB internal laptop drives, but they are 12.5 mm high. This is the first (I think) that is 9.5 mm high.

[Geek-9pm]

You are right. So this can be a piratical option even in very thin devices, like a tablet PC.

[Salmon Trout]

I think a lot of people will be interested in these drives.

[Transfusion]

You are right. So this can be a piratical option even in very thin devices, like a tablet PC.

The iPad, the well-known tablet PC standard, uses flash storage, which is quite a bit faster than hard drives with spindles. Not to mention the hard drive would be more susceptible to physical shocks...

[BC_Programmer]

The iPad, the well-known tablet PC standard, uses flash storage, which is quite a bit faster than hard drives with spindles. Not to mention the hard drive would be more susceptible to physical shocks...

The iPad in no way is a tablet PC. it's basically just an iPod touch with a bigger screen. It uses iOS, as opposed to OSX; And, it's more geared towards consumption of media, rather than creation of it.

Also, SD and SD-HD cards are both slower than your average Hard drive. Only Compact Flash has speeds comparable to a run of the mill 7200RPM drive. All Flash storage is not created equal.

[Transfusion]

How bout SSDs? and isn't iOS an extremely stripped down version of OSX? because they both run .app files, they both are based on UNIX, etc.

[BC_Programmer]

How bout SSDs?

SSD's use much faster technology than your average Flash Memory- my point was that saying "Flash is faster than magnetic hard drives" isn't always true. Whether the iPod, iPad, or iWhatever uses an SSD, I don't know, and honestly don't care.

and isn't iOS an extremely stripped down version of OSX? because they both run .app files, they both are based on UNIX, etc.

Yes, that is my point. Saying that a tablet PC is running iOS is the equivalent of saying that you have a tablet PC running Android or Windows Phone. They aren't desktop operating systems, and a tablet PC by definition should be just as capable as a PC. Can you run, for example, Final Cut Pro on a iPad? Of Course not. And of course the whole "based on UNIX" thing is just a load of nothing, because it is meaningless. Apple fans like to repeat that over and over, as if being based on UNIX suddenly makes it inherently secure. It does not.

In that way I must agree with Geek-9pm; this makes 1TB drives a more economical (space-wise, if not money wise yet) option for both laptops as well as tablet PCs. SSDs are faster, but, they also cost a *censored* of a lot more per MB/GB.

[Geek-9pm]

True, but if the SDD people y b up the sped and drop the price, The hard drive makers may be in deep trouble.
Unless they can put a tetra byte micro drive in a pocket knife.

[patio]

Until the price comes down dramatically SSD drives are not worth the marginal performance boost they advertise...

[immental1200]

True, but if the SDD people y b up the sped and drop the price, The hard drive makers may be in deep trouble.
Unless they can put a tetra byte micro drive in a pocket knife.

According to some "sources" this is due to happen soon. By "sources" I mean all the IT websites and review places who "claim" to have Inside Knowledge.

Until the price comes down dramatically SSD drives are not worth the marginal performance boost they advertise...

More than halved by boot times... Hibernate is about 10 seconds to restore after BIOS has finished POST. Thats with alot open as well.

The only change made to the system was 2 x 128GB SSDS installed in RAID 1

[patio]

Why i've always wondered are boot times so important ? ?
And considered even as a mark of performance ? ?

[Transfusion]

Why i've always wondered are boot times so important ? ?
And considered even as a mark of performance ? ?

Probably because many associate slow boot times with an extremely cluttered computer, which would have slow performance.

[immental1200]

Why i've always wondered are boot times so important ? ?
And considered even as a mark of performance ? ?

I like to be able to hit the power button on my pc and see my desktop within a few seconds...

[BC_Programmer]

I like to be able to hit the power button on my pc and see my desktop within a few seconds...

Why?