Data Recovery Blog » Flash http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog Hard drive news, and a few golden nuggets Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:11:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 MEMRISTORS http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2008/12/09/memristors/ http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2008/12/09/memristors/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:09:00 +0000 admin http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2008/12/09/memristors/ To put it in a nutshell, this could be the future for storage technology. The memristor has been the missing link from back when resistors, inductors and capacitors were originally created. What has now changed is the use of nano technology which has allowed the creation of the fourth electronic component; the memristor.
This technology can “remember” how much current has passed through it and can save its electronic state even when turned off. This means that in theory it will be much faster and cheaper than flash memory (And SSDs), and eventually also replace the hard drive for data storage.  
]]> http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2008/12/09/memristors/feed/ 0 Seagate May Sue Rival SSD Makers http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2008/03/25/seagate-may-sue-rival-ssd-makers/ http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2008/03/25/seagate-may-sue-rival-ssd-makers/#comments Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:32:00 +0000 straywasp http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2008/03/25/seagate-may-sue-rival-ssd-makers/ The next battle in the war on SSDs may have just begun. Apparently Seagate are convinced that SSD makers such as Samsung and Intel are violating some of Seagate’s (and Western Digital’s) patents. The wizardry which relates to the way a storage device communicates with a computer is at stake, even though Seagate themselves don’t appear too taken with an SSD based future. CEO Bill Watkins is quoted as saying, “realistically, I just don’t see the flash notebook sell.” I would have to agree with that at the moment. Cost per GB, reliability and speed are among the many drawbacks currently facing solid state drives when compared to traditional hard disk drives. Once these issues are resolved then the need for regular backups will become all the more important in my eyes at least. There are currently many ways in which we can resurrect a failing hard drive but next to no ways to recover a failed SSD.

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]]> http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2008/03/25/seagate-may-sue-rival-ssd-makers/feed/ 0 Hard Drives Vs Solid State Round 1 http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2008/03/18/hard-drives-vs-solid-state-round-1/ http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2008/03/18/hard-drives-vs-solid-state-round-1/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:39:00 +0000 straywasp http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2008/03/18/hard-drives-vs-solid-state-round-1/ It seems the backlash may have already begun. As we expected the current batch of SSDs are no match for the long perfected hard drives. Reports of customers returning solid state laptops are apparently hitting the 10-20% mark. I would like to think that a new revolutionary data storage medium gets into the market place before SSDs really take hold. I have an SSD in my EEE pc which is fine but I can’t help thinking a 30GB 1.8″ drive would have been far more versatile. Let’s see what developments appear in round 2. Will the SSDs fight back? (I think not…)

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]]> http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2008/03/18/hard-drives-vs-solid-state-round-1/feed/ 0 1.6TB Ultra320 SCSI SSD http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2008/02/06/16tb-ultra320-scsi-ssd/ http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2008/02/06/16tb-ultra320-scsi-ssd/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:04:00 +0000 straywasp http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2008/02/06/16tb-ultra320-scsi-ssd/ According to Engadget, BiTMICRO have announced a new solid state drive which packs in 1.6TB of storage into a 3.5″ form factor drive. The E-Disk Altima E3S320 promises sustained data transfer rates of up to 230MB per second and are also expected to be available in more modest 16GB varieties. Engadget suggest remortgaging your house which may not be too far wrong if current SSD costs are anything to go by.

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]]> http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2008/02/06/16tb-ultra320-scsi-ssd/feed/ 0 Samsung Start Manufacture of 64GB 1.8" SSDs http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2007/06/25/samsung-start-manufacture-of-64gb-18-ssds/ http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2007/06/25/samsung-start-manufacture-of-64gb-18-ssds/#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:00:00 +0000 straywasp http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2007/06/25/samsung-start-manufacture-of-64gb-18-ssds/ Samsung has today started production of it’s 64GB solid state drive. (How long until we see that in an iPod hack?…) These 1.8″ flash hard drives would be a welcome addition to any portable device, provided you keep regular backups. At least if the drives do fail you won’t have to put up with the heart wrenching click of death. (but good luck trying to desolder and then resolder all those chips in an ill-fated and expensive data recovery attempt.)

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]]> http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2007/06/25/samsung-start-manufacture-of-64gb-18-ssds/feed/ 0 PNY unveils SSDs for laptops, iPods and more http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2007/06/05/pny-unveils-ssds-for-laptops-ipods-and-more/ http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2007/06/05/pny-unveils-ssds-for-laptops-ipods-and-more/#comments Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:01:00 +0000 straywasp http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2007/06/05/pny-unveils-ssds-for-laptops-ipods-and-more/ Engadget today posted news of the new solid state disks from PNY. In 1.8″ and 2.5″ flavours they feature 66MBps read and 55MBps write speeds with standard ZIF, Micro SATA, 44-pin IDE and SATA interfaces. These drives will be simple replacements for the likes of laptops and will eventually (by the end of the year) be shipping 1.8″ and 2.5″ drives up to 128GB capacity. Finally my whole music collection can follow me to the gym without fear of trashing the 1.8″ drive and it’s glass platters! It is now more important than ever that people start to put a decent backup routine in place because with solid state storage there is not much a data recovery company can do to resurrect them when they fail.

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]]> http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2007/06/05/pny-unveils-ssds-for-laptops-ipods-and-more/feed/ 0 Samsung Predicts That Hard Drives Are here To Stay http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2007/04/25/samsung-predicts-that-hard-drives-are-here-to-stay/ http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2007/04/25/samsung-predicts-that-hard-drives-are-here-to-stay/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:53:00 +0000 admin http://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/2007/04/25/samsung-predicts-that-hard-drives-are-here-to-stay/ An article on Engadget today predicts that the cost of flash drives (or SSDs) are not going to overtake Hard Drives in cost per gigabyte for many years to come. It gives a nice chart that shows that with the fall in SSD prices, Hard drives costs will continue to fall.

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