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Old 17 September 2007, 09:47 AM
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Angry Broadband jealousy...

i just did the speed test on the other thread and laughed at the pathetic result. then i saw this :O

75-year-old pensioner has fastest broadband - News - Tech.co.uk
Old 17 September 2007, 11:14 AM
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Fab.

"The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC," Jonsson added.
Typical!

A DVD in 2 secs? Surely you couldn't get the data off the disk that quickly?

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Old 17 September 2007, 03:23 PM
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I WANT THAT ONE!
Old 17 September 2007, 04:49 PM
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Typical!

A DVD in 2 secs? Surely you couldn't get the data off the disk that quickly?

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I guess they are talking about downloading an ISO image or suchlike, rather than reading from a remote DVD device.
Old 17 September 2007, 04:54 PM
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Eitherway you couldnt write 4gig on an average harddrive in 2 seconds
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Originally Posted by bob269
Eitherway you couldnt write 4gig on an average harddrive in 2 seconds
you stick with your 'up to 8mb' then.

I'll 40Gb
Old 17 September 2007, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by bob269
Eitherway you couldnt write 4gig on an average harddrive in 2 seconds
it's about time we could though - hard disk technology seems the only thing that doesn't advance quickly these days.

looking forward to a nice big flash drive and decent interface.

Bring it on... (although the transfer rate is still way tooo slow)
TDK samples 32GB Flash disk | Reg Hardware
(although the transfer rates are still too slow)

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Old 17 September 2007, 07:19 PM
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Hard disk technology is advancing - solid state drives (SSD) are the new kid on the block. Problem is they cost a fortune at the moment.
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Originally Posted by Markus
I guess they are talking about downloading an ISO image or suchlike, rather than reading from a remote DVD device.
Sorry, I meant a hard disk, not a DVD. You can't even transfer data that quickly off really fast disk yet.

Still, I'm sure you will be able to one day.

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Old 18 September 2007, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by D16GER
Hard disk technology is advancing - solid state drives (SSD) are the new kid on the block. Problem is they cost a fortune at the moment.
that's what I said in the previous post! (Flash = Nand Flash = SSD)

Prices are dropping pretty quickly - 40% per year they say. Currently you can get a 16GB SSD for £133 at the moment. Not that big, but perhaps you could dedicate a windows partition to it and stick you apps elsewhere. It'll cut boot time by 50% and seek time on windows files is <0.1ms
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416gig ssd next year, altho expect the cost to be high at first.

This 2.5-inch ATA/ATAPI-7 PATA solid state drive, supporting PIO 0-4, DMA 0-2 and UDMA 0-6 data transfer modes, will utilize the latest high-density single level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory chips to deliver an astounding storage capacity of up to 416 GB, while providing 133MB/sec burst with up to 100MB/sec sustained Reads and Writes and up to 20,000+ Random IOPS. With operating temperatures ranging from –40 degrees C to +85 degrees C, the E-Disk® Altima™ ATA-133 model is suitable for 24x7 deployment even in extremely hostile environments.

Sampling for the E-Disk® Altima™ ATA-133 solid state drive is expected to begin in Q1 2008 and ship by March 2008 in capacities ranging from 4GB up to 416GB.
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BiTMICRO to debut 416GB IDE Flash Solid State Disk (Press Release)
Old 18 September 2007, 03:15 PM
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bring it on!!

Anand have done an article reviewing MTRON's 100MB/s SSD drive (not quite as fast as the one mentioned above).
AnandTech: MTRON 32GB SSD: Better in a Notebook?

Its still expensive but, heck I want one!
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