Next generation of hard drives?

[imported_Com80787]

So what's happened with the talk of next gen hard drives? A few months ago there were tons of articles coming out about flash memory based drives and hybrid drives. Now there isn't really anymore talk about them.

I just had another drive fail today and I can't wait for something more reliable than these mechanical drives.

Does anyone have any idea when we might actually start seeing some of these next-gen drives on the market?

 

[PurdueRy]

There are flash drives on the market. They just really aren't all that impressive for the price and the performance increase isn't what it could be.

 

[Modelworks]

http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page3.html
good for a laugh

 

[Zepper]

I thought that Samsung recently came out with a HDD that has a lot of Flash rom on it.

.bh.

 

[daveshel]

I've been hearing that conventional drives are supposed to go to 2 1/2" but the only thing I've seen in that form factor are some SAS drives I got in my last round of purchasing from HP.

 

[Operandi]

Originally posted by: Zepper
I thought that Samsung recently came out with a HDD that has a lot of Flash rom on it.

.bh.

Yeah it was supposed to be a big part of Vista. I remember lots of hype before Vista's initial debut but nothing since.

 

[Modelworks]

I'm curious as to the lifespan of a flash based HDD.
I know when working with most flash based stuff the write cycles vary from 10,000 to 1,000,000.
Not a whole lot when you consider hard drives read and write constantly.
Its still going to be considerably slower than a hdd.

 

[jkresh]

Modelworks if you look at tomshardware they just reviewed a new samsung flash drive and for most things its faster then a regular drive (its seek is amazing). Main problem it has is with database type systems. For booting windows and regular usage its quite impressive.
As to read/write cycles they are supposedly around 1,000,000 for the drive (but remember thats for each sector) so if the drive properly spreads the writes around then it should last for quite a while. Also the drives can simply remove bad sectors as they happen so it wont die it will simply shrink away.

 

[Modelworks]

Thanks for the info.
I got a pfsense router box here that I have been running with an old 20GB hard drive.
Been considering moving it to a compact flash ide drive, just never got around to it.