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Buffalo Intros 256 GB IDE Solid State Drive
Buffalo Technology released a new 2.5" IDE Solid State Drive (SSD) for notebooks that still use the disk interface. The company's SHD-NHPU2 SSD come in capacities of 256 GB, and make use of MLC NAND flash chips. The drives have also feature USB 2.0 interface that lets you access it as a USB mass storage device. In the ATA mode (when connected by IDE), the drive provides transfer rates of 101 MB/s, and is aided by 64 MB of cache. If you're thinking of buying one, keep US $1220 ready.
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hmm IDE interesting.....
wouldn't this defeat the purpose of being an SSD?
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If you can afford to put a $1200 SDD in a laptop, you should be able to afford a new one with SATA interface.
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This. Who in the world thought that there was an appropriate market at that price point???
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Exactly. ^^
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Whoever at Buffalo thought this was a good idea should just shoot himself in the balls.
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Wow, sooo pointless it's untrue.
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Surely you would be able to buy a new laptop with a 256GB SSD for less?
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A $600 laptop plus a $600 SSD? I wouldn't do that. :P
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Still beats buying this thing. Whoever invented this needs to be shot.
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Probably. I am setting up Hadoop for the first time, so I cannot be blamed for lack of any ability to perceive anything beyond the plain text in front of me at the moment
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This is like making an AGP Fermi, so pointlessly funny.
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I doubt it
. It brings lot more performance for older PCs, than upgrade CPUs, GPUs, Memories. You can use it in older Pentium 4, Athlon XP machines and in older laptops up to Pentium M (Dothan). The older PATA drives makes only 30-40MB/sec, but the interface can handle up to 133MB/sec.However the price is pointless .
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For those that doubted me when I said IDE SSD's were pointless 6 months ago, behold. This is f&%^*(^ stupid. Even if you use this for a laptop, a standard HDD at 7200 RPMs will give you the same performance, more space, and cheaper.
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Well, the second feature, other than super speed, is that SSD has no moving parts. This particular SSD is probably for industrial computers which still uses IDE.
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That is an old crap with average reading speed 36MB/sec.
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Even it is wasn't insanely stupidly priced, even if it was reasonably priced for an SSD of that size at $600, anyone with a laptop old enough to use it would be an idiot to buy this drive. You can put that $600 into a new laptop with a standard HDD, and it would kill the old laptop with this SSD.
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what's with the sarcasm? it is double the speed
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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...
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