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Thought about buying one for some time, but after reading of the OCZ HSDL ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/30/ocz_hdsl/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/

by drtse4 16y ago

Thought about buying one for some time, but after reading of the OCZ HSDL ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/30/ocz_hdsl/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/30/ocz_hdsl/ ) i'll wait for the next generation hoping in bigger/faster disks, atm the size/price ratio is not yet good enough.

erikig 16y ago
From what I gather HSDL is proprietary to OCZ, and unlikely to come to laptops. Like many I've come to accept that SSD's will be roughly $2-3/GB for a while to come. I'd hate to spend all that time waiting while my spinny drive churns away valuable seconds of my workday.
tryp 16y ago
I think this is an area where legacy support is really holding us back. I'd love to see us get to the point where we can just have a simple NAND controller attached to the PCIe bus. But doing that requires a flash-aware filesystem like UBIFS, and if you want to boot from it, bootloaders/BIOS that know how to read it. We're currently stuck with PCIe->SATA controller->SATA attached NAND controller devices that implement their own wear leveling and bad-block management with degree of effectiveness widely varying among manufacturer's implementations. We have to use post-hoc benchmark results to attempt to reverse-engineer the the performance/price/longevity tradeoffs that were baked into the device. I suspect that no mass-market ASIC company will be willing to get this on the market until Microsoft ships an OS with a native NAND controller driver and flash-aware filesystem and a system OEM contracts with their BIOS vendor to allow booting from the thing.
bryanlarsen 16y ago
Don't wait. There's always something better coming, but the benefit from going from HD -> SSD is so much more massive than going from 2010 SSD -> 2011 SSD. (2008 SSD is a different story).

4 ms·

Thought about buying one for some time, but after reading of the OCZ HSDL ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/30/ocz_hdsl/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/

by drtse4 16y ago

erikig 16y ago
From what I gather HSDL is proprietary to OCZ, and unlikely to come to laptops. Like many I've come to accept that SSD's will be roughly $2-3/GB for a while to come. I'd hate to spend all that time waiting while my spinny drive churns away valuable seconds of my workday.
tryp 16y ago
I think this is an area where legacy support is really holding us back. I'd love to see us get to the point where we can just have a simple NAND controller attached to the PCIe bus. But doing that requires a flash-aware filesystem like UBIFS, and if you want to boot from it, bootloaders/BIOS that know how to read it. We're currently stuck with PCIe->SATA controller->SATA attached NAND controller devices that implement their own wear leveling and bad-block management with degree of effectiveness widely varying among manufacturer's implementations. We have to use post-hoc benchmark results to attempt to reverse-engineer the the performance/price/longevity tradeoffs that were baked into the device. I suspect that no mass-market ASIC company will be willing to get this on the market until Microsoft ships an OS with a native NAND controller driver and flash-aware filesystem and a system OEM contracts with their BIOS vendor to allow booting from the thing.
bryanlarsen 16y ago
Don't wait. There's always something better coming, but the benefit from going from HD -> SSD is so much more massive than going from 2010 SSD -> 2011 SSD. (2008 SSD is a different story).