Fixstars Highest Density 3TB SSD-3000M Launches

Fixstar is a well known company for sync HD solution for Quadro...
but i wasn't aware they do SSD too. Now they can sell the whole package Software, Hardware, and SSD.

*edit* Hilbert, there is no more separate quote, it appear in the post as it is part of it.
*edit 2* it's ok now Hilbert

 

When are we going to get 2TB+ consumer level SATA/mSATA SSDs? One of those and my rig can become entirely solid state.

 

yes and no... SSD have a much shorter life.

but we can use a SSD nowaday as main storage media (OS, program and casual media) but not (for now) as secured storage (important media, naked selfie etc...).

the future is on the run anyway...

 

That's why I always leave some unpartitioned space!

 

I would actually consider it is actually the other way around now.

Last I read (was a couple of years back - maybe solved now?) modern high density HDD platters suffer from magnetic bleed effects causing corruption between data bits over time. Perhaps reducing data stability to about maybe as little as 10 years if the data is not refreshed.

Labs conducting longevity tests on SSDs have been reporting the drives surviving far more writes than was initially expected.

Mirroring these thoughts I've been seeing various sites reporting the consideration that SSDs are far more reliable these days than traditional mechanical HDDs.


I would still only buy 240GB and bigger SSDs due to the considerably longer life expectancy, even if the early estimates were possibly cautious.

 

Hmm, they guarantee only 1 year for their products, IMO not a good start.

 

Just put your naked selfies on iCloud. What could go wrong?

 

it help a bit but once dead... it's dead.

have still some over 10 years old WD HDD and have killed already 11 SSD (mostly samsung) on my 4 PC.

but no doubt that it will evolve in the SSD side (it has started already)

 

at $990US for the 1TB version i hesitate to think what sort of price they're going to be asking for the 3TB variant

 

My $10,000 is ready!

 

Just gonna leave this here

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/data-...3859!&ef_id=VOU63QAABZ5sDzgZ:20150219012237:s

 

what's the point of this post? that's a HDD

 

You either have bad luck, or I have good luck. My OCZ Vertex 2 is still going strong. Had it since Dec 2010 I believe and still showing 100% on life.

 

The point being you can get a 5TB HDD for just over £100 now.

Sure SSD's are better in every way except two things.

Price & capacity

If you add capacity to SSD's the price suffers dramatically as we can see here with these high capacity SSD's.

To me SSD's are only good for your main OS drive and everything else can be placed on a HDD. Until prices come down and capacity goes up SSD's will have a hard time catching on. Sure SSD's help with load times in pretty much any situation over a HDD but loading is not what you call slow on HDD. If you keep things organised and defrag regularly there is pretty much nothing in it and I find my self getting into multiplayer games faster than some of my friends who have their games installed on an SSD.

To stop rambling on now, what I am saying is large SSD's are pretty much worthless at the moment and will do nothing but leave a large whole in your wallet. As time goes on this will change and in an ideal world HDD's will become extinct.

 

Yeah you're stuck in the 90's bud. A gaming system should never have any rotating media in it whatsoever.

Be it an ODD or a HDD.

HDD's are too slow for today's games and cause stutter. Period.

I don't care what you say on this one, you're dead wrong and HDD's are not sufficient for today's games. Pure coincidence that your HDD beat out someone's SSD. It was slow and/not setup properly.

Now of you are fine with an occasional stutter, that is fine. I've seen this phenomenon first hand. It's pretty wild and I wish I could be like that. But I cannot, therefore all my gaming systems have been equipped with SSD's since they first came out. All gaming systems require them now. Not just high end.

Obviously not all games use them enhanced speed. Really does depend on what you are playing of course. But certain games will just play like garbage from HDD's. Furthermore most drives now that people purchase are 5400rpm. Way too slow for gaming. You need at least 7200rpm, I'd dare say 10,000-15,000 rpm this day and age to get any type of stutter free performance like having an SSD in your system.

 

lol this is really a "gamer" post, so much technical words...

none, my OCZ is still working too , OCZ and Corsair seem to be lot better, Samsung are cheaper...

 

Curious, Samsung SSD's were considered to be one of the most reliable brands of SSDs going by data from data centers when I last checked (in the days of their 830)

To have That many failures, perhaps the cause of the failures is not directly in the SSDs themselves somehow in Your case? Though that does sound unlikely due to your other ones surviving (in the same machine?)...

 

nope
the 2 840 EVO Pro (raid) from my business computer
the EVO from my HTPC's system
the EVO from my GF's system
and the two from my laptop (have fail after 2 week of use)...

on other hand the most old of all (the OCZ) work as a charm.

 

surprising and something to keep an eye on. tnx.

I also have an OCZ Vertex 4 and very happy with it, I was leaning towards a Samsung for my next big SSD drive upgrade. Will look more carefully now