Say Goodbye to Hard Drives

[Tim Irwin]

Sooner than I think? Really, Promise? Ok then I think it’s tomorrow. 😉

all kidding aside, i’ll be very happy when I can store all my p2 archives on cheap solid state storage, but i don’t see the cheap part happening any time soon.

-Tim

[Nate Stephens]

Their PCMIA units only top out at 16gig with a 30mb/s write speed… Me thinks we will be paying Panasonic’s big “got u” tarrif on P2 cards for awhile. I would love to find a third party vendor for P2 cards.

But their 3.5 ATA / sata class units claim to be 200 times faster than a 15000rpm spindle.. Now that sounds encouraging. But NO prices listed… Better start saving the pennies…

[Walter Biscardi]

[Sean ONeil] “Sooner than you think, we’ll laugh at how we used to fret of those noisy spinning things.”

No pricing data means these are very expensive. Remember that the majority of the folks on this forum find a FW 800 unit very expensive. Seeing how much the P2 cards have held their price for the past two years, I’m guessing it will be at least 3 years before these will be at a price point that most folks would afford.

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[Ed Dooley]

FW800 drives expensive? People on this forum really believe that? Who? I want names, I don’t believe it. 🙂
As for price, Barefeats.com says that 128g versions are $3,000. I think I’ll wait a while.
Ed

[walter biscardi] “No pricing data means these are very expensive. Remember that the majority of the folks on this forum find a FW 800 unit very expensive. Seeing how much the P2 cards have held their price for the past two years, I’m guessing it will be at least 3 years before these will be at a price point that most folks would afford.”

[Arnie Schlissel]

[Nate Stephens] “I would love to find a third party vendor for P2 cards.”

Fujifilm has announced that they’ll start making P2 cards in the spring.

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/105/858649

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[Sean Oneil]

[Ed Dooley] “Barefeats.com says that 128g versions are $3,000. I think I’ll wait a while.”

“STEC’s solution is alleged to cut the dollar-per-gigabyte price down to just $2/GB within two years. “

[David Roth weiss]

[Sean ONeil] “”STEC’s solution is alleged to cut the dollar-per-gigabyte price down to just $2/GB within two years. “”

4-terabyte hard drives are due by mid year 2008 at about the cost of the present 1-terabyte drives. I’ll bet you a house Sean that you’ll buy many traditional hard drives before you buy even one that is solid state.

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[Bob Zelin]

I think that Sean should WAIT until 1TB solid state storage is available. As a matter of fact, wait until you can get 1TB solid state flash cards for the RED camera. This will be 2012, and Sean will still have his current system. Who needs more competition.

Ya know Sean, one day, we will have fibre transmission from our cameras (maybe wireless too) to our GOOGLE central storage server, but somehow, we have to EAT until that happens. So you better buy something until that day happens.

Bob Zelin

[Sean Oneil]

[David Roth Weiss] “4-terabyte hard drives are due by mid year 2008 at about the cost of the present 1-terabyte drives.”

Sounds like a great option for backups. I still think by 2009 we’ll begin seeing flash memory used in post houses for media drives.

[Aaron Zander]

I see your ssd sing drive, and give you a beast that out performs it’s raid controller card.

https://www.nextlevelhardware.com/storage/battleship/

who wants to buy me one