DO WANT! Samsung 256 GB SSD

carnivore

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080526/tc_afp/skoreaelectronicsitsamsungchip

If this is priced anywhere closed to reasonable, I'm replacing the HD in my MBP as soon as this comes out!

whyfi

I would expect it to be almost as much, if not more, than your MBP...

Give it a year.

doctorj

Random access is great for read. But what's the write speed like? Getting into swap with a hard drive is bad enough, but I can recover. Imagine swapping to flash.

whyfi

Via Engadget

...the MLC-flash SATA II drive has speeds of 200MBps read and 160MBps sequential write.

daver

dats pretty damn fast...

carnivore

WhyFi wrote: I would expect it to be almost as much, if not more, than your MBP...

Give it a year.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/05/25/samsung.256gb.ssd/

More important still is the cost of the technology behind the drive, Samsung says. Rather than use costly single-level cell (SLC) technology, the company has managed to develop a multi-level cell (MLC) storage drive that transfers as quickly as the best SLC storage while costing much less to produce than past SSDs.

whyfi

Ahh! "much less to produce" probably = $500ish.