Buffalo Intros 256 GB IDE Solid State Drive

Atom_Anti · Jul 7, 2010

newtekie1 said:
Yes, but it is still pointless because, even at reasonable SSD prices of ~$600 that money could buy a brand new laptop that would outperform the old laptop in every way even if the old laptop had this SSD. And $1200 can buy you one hell of a laptop with an SSD in it already...

The only cons is the price, I did not say 1200USD is ok for it. Hopefully an other brand going to bring cheaper PATA SSD with 133MB/sec read and writing speed.

GSG-9 · Jul 8, 2010

Atom_Anti said:
The only cons is the price, I did not say 1200USD is ok for it. Hopefully an other brand going to bring cheaper PATA SSD with 133MB/sec read and writing speed.

As said above it would not matter. a reasonable price is $700. If you buy an Ide drive for $700 your not a very savvy spender. Buy a i5 for $600 and a boot SSD for $70. You just killed any performance that drive could offer.

The only purpose this drive has is industrial/commercial for companies that have invested to much into their hardware to upgrade...and if thats the case at this point they should not be buying super IDE drives to try to save their aging hardware.

happita · Jul 8, 2010

Maybe the reason they felt the need to bring this out is because notebooks are taking a little longer to switch over to SATA interface? And that the ribbon-wire on the PATA makes it easier to fit in a notebook? I don't know. Otherwise I, just as the majority see this as useless.

VIPER · Jul 8, 2010

It is not stupid at all. There are some military grade laptops out there with IDE interface. Or industrial computers. Or medical equipment that use IDE HDD. a.s.o. Why everybody is seeing only the price and the IDE interface and not the real market for this HDD? Why everybody is thinking just for themselves? "I would never buy something like this, is stupid, useless and has a huge price"...

TheLaughingMan · Jul 8, 2010

Atom_Anti said:
There is no 7200RPMs laptop HDD with PATA interface. Computer Hardware,Hard Drives,Laptop Hard Drives,A...

You are right, because IDE is a dying interface. If your laptop is old enough to be running PATA or mini PATA or any other variation of it, then it is too damn old to put a $1200 piece of hardware in it. I was talking about newer 7200 RPM SATA drives in a decent $900 laptop you can buy right now.

pr0n Inspector · Jul 9, 2010

VIPER said:
It is not stupid at all. There are some military grade laptops out there with IDE interface. Or industrial computers. Or medical equipment that use IDE HDD. a.s.o. Why everybody is seeing only the price and the IDE interface and not the real market for this HDD? Why everybody is thinking just for themselves? "I would never buy something like this, is stupid, useless and has a huge price"...

It is stupid. very stupid. none of the equipments you mentioned have pressing needs for a massive upgrade like switching to SSD.

DrPepper · Jul 9, 2010

pr0n Inspector said:
It is stupid. very stupid. none of the equipments you mentioned have pressing needs for a massive upgrade like switching to SSD.

The only reason to get an SSD like this isn't for transfer speeds its for its random write and read capabilities which make SSD's so snappy.

GSG-9 · Jul 9, 2010

VIPER said:
It is not stupid at all. There are some military grade laptops out there with IDE interface. Or industrial computers. Or medical equipment that use IDE HDD. a.s.o. Why everybody is seeing only the price and the IDE interface and not the real market for this HDD? Why everybody is thinking just for themselves? "I would never buy something like this, is stupid, useless and has a huge price"...

No, it has been stated above many times that that kind of hardware will not really benefit from the ssd. $700 for this is not a justifiable purchase unless the company cannot upgrade their hardware because of some migration issues; if thats the case its still barely justifiable.

If Buffalo sold it for less than $799 that they would go out of business.

Yukikaze · Jul 9, 2010

DrPepper said:
The only reason to get an SSD like this isn't for transfer speeds its for its random write and read capabilities which make SSD's so snappy.

Actually, in military equipment it also has the benefit of being practically shock-proof.

GSG-9 · Jul 9, 2010

Yukikaze said:
Actually, in military equipment it also has the benefit of being practically shock-proof.

Thats very true.

pr0n Inspector · Jul 9, 2010

DrPepper said:
The only reason to get an SSD like this isn't for transfer speeds its for its random write and read capabilities which make SSD's so snappy.

And why do slow, old computers need blazing fast storage again?

Deleted member 3 · Jul 9, 2010

Atom_Anti said:
That is an old crap with average reading speed 36MB/sec.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/uploads/tx_templavoila/hdtune_dd5785_03.jpg
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Alienware-S-4-m5550-Notebook.2701.0.html

That doesn't make your claim less wrong though.

Atom_Anti said:
This is exactly why not pointless and stupid an SSD PATA with 100MB/sec. Because it is just double speed than the fastest laptop PATA HDD.

Given the performance increase is significant I would have to agree with the fact that you can buy a new laptop with SSD for the same price. I'm guessing this is aimed at some niche professional market.

pr0n Inspector · Jul 9, 2010

Yukikaze said:
Actually, in military equipment it also has the benefit of being practically shock-proof.

then all these years of spinning disks must've been a nightmare for militaries around the globe......wait, they've got shock-resistant HDDs!

GSG-9 · Jul 9, 2010

pr0n Inspector said:
then all these years of spinning disks must've been a nightmare for militaries around the globe......wait, they've got shock-resistant HDDs!

They are not great though, HP's resistant HDDs take like 5Gs I think it is? Idk, what a SSD can take.

Deleted member 3 · Jul 9, 2010

GSG-9 said:
They are not great though, HP's resistant HDDs take like 5Gs I think it is? Idk, what a SSD can take.

The one I currently have in my hands says 1500G, 0.5ms.

TheLaughingMan · Jul 9, 2010

Ok, I have to give it shock resistant. You drop a laptop from a decent height of a whole 5 feet, the HDD has a very small chance of survival. I have literally seen a guy hit an SSD with a bat, it flew about 10 meters and landed in mug. They connected it to a laptop on the spot via a cable from the HD port (it was too bent up to fit in on its on) and it still worked just fine.

pr0n Inspector · Jul 10, 2010

TheLaughingMan said:
Ok, I have to give it shock resistant. You drop a laptop from a decent height of a whole 5 feet, the HDD has a very small chance of survival. I have literally seen a guy hit an SSD with a bat, it flew about 10 meters and landed in mug. They connected it to a laptop on the spot via a cable from the HD port (it was too bent up to fit in on its on) and it still worked just fine.

one word: Toughbook.

TheLaughingMan · Jul 10, 2010

pr0n Inspector said:
one word: Toughbook.

Already sold with SSD's for at least a year. And will never be using this product for their toughbooks.

pr0n Inspector · Jul 11, 2010

TheLaughingMan said:
Already sold with SSD's for at least a year. And will never be using this product for their toughbooks.

I meant that Toughbooks used and still use HDDs and they were mounted in a way that can survived drops.

TheLaughingMan · Jul 11, 2010

pr0n Inspector said:
I meant that Toughbooks used and still use HDDs and they were mounted in a way that can survived drops.

Ok, as a replacement for older Toughbooks, this maybe something to consider since a new one is what...$4000?

So we have 1 small market area for this item as far as I am concerned.

Steevo · Jul 11, 2010

I have a Toshiba Tecra that I use, the Insite software requires a hardware key that is serial number matched to my laptop and REQUIRES the parallel port on it to work. I have been waiting for a 128Gb SSD to replace my aging 60GB HDD in IDE.

If this drops in price it will be mine.

pr0n Inspector · Jul 12, 2010

TheLaughingMan said:
Ok, as a replacement for older Toughbooks, this maybe something to consider since a new one is what...$4000?

So we have 1 small market area for this item as far as I am concerned.

Actually I was more focused on the "5 feet, the HDD has a very small chance of survival" part. Toughbooks can survive 6' drops.

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Buffalo Intros 256 GB IDE Solid State Drive

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