Post 301 -- SSD's: The State of Solid State

Like a Senator once said about the deficit, "A SSD GB here a SSD GB there, pretty soon it becomes Serious Storage...".

Well over in Vegas this Week, they had the Storage Visions Conference, where Samsung Electronics has introduced its latest solid state disk (SSD) offering a 100GB "green" hard drive that promises to cut energy costs by 75 percent over typical hard disk drives.

Link: http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/3794906/Samsung+Goes+Green+With+New+SSD.htm

Some Facts about SSD's:

High-end HDDs run about $4 to $5 per gigabyte and SSDs are now about $50 to $60 per gigabyte. That's a price point more enterprises are willing to pay for SSD's faster response time over hard drives -- nearly 10 times greater -- The SSD, according to Samsung, uses 1.9 watts of power in active mode and 0.6 in idle compared to HDDs that need about 8 to 15 watts in active and one to two watts when in idle mode. The average data center consumes energy equivalent to 25,000 households and that total energy consumption in data centers doubled between 2000 and 2006 worldwide.

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Possible Upcoming MC2 Blogs
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Netbooks, Laptops, What's the Difference? AMD says: "Not Much...".

Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10148486-92.html
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JOLICLOUD: Your Next Netbook OS (Linux modified)????
Link: http://www.jolicloud.com/
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Multi-Touch Hack For Android

Link: http://lukehutch.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/get-multi-touch-support-on-your-t-mobile-g1-today/
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Forbes Says: Seattle is the Most Wired City in America Check out the List Here:
Link: http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/22/wired-cities-2009-tech-wire-cx_ew_0122wiredcities.html
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Wingman Solid, man Solid.

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