256GB Sandisk 2.5" (7mm) SATA III Solid State Drive (SSD) $140 + Free shipping

Anyone know if this is faster than my 80gb Intel drive?


Can't remember the exact model - m or s- it was sata ii

Sandisk announced 3 new SSD at CES 2013 today and ready to be shipped.

Review - http://www.anandtech.com/show/655...view-256gb
Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ult...a+Plus+SSD

Quote from okinawanmatt : ReRAM based on memristor will be the successor to SSDs. I just took a semester-long course on this subject, and prototypes are already out. HP and Hynix are working together to make a commercially available version by the end of 2013. Your business/investor friends may be telling you to dump HP, but some of us in the CEG department are buying HP stock

Really? You will buy into a diverse company based on one product? One that is not even out yet. You should have taken a semester long course on investing instead.

Can someone explain why the 2,000 IOPS makes this thing a sucky SSD (as stated in the wiki) besides that it is way lower than other SSD IOPS? Does this shit really matter for X use, or is it just another spec to tout for marketing? Don't regular HDD's cap out somewhere near the hundred. The wiki was edited to say it's not much of an SSD in terms of performance. Or a link to an article about the significance of IOPS would be great. Thx!

IOPS is a reference to have many times the drive can be accessed before expected death. Higher numbers = longer drive life before either the capacity begins shrinking or the drive entirely fails. Not a huge deal for a backup drive that gets written to once and only looked at every few months, but a HUGE problem for an OS or any other regularly accessed and/or updated data.

IOPS is [are] a performance indicator, not a reliability/longevity indicator.

The OP's drive is crap. I would pay $140 if it was Sandisk Ultra with 7mm though.
And thanks for the links. Their new drives doesn't look impressive at all. I would just get a Samsung 840, the non-pro version instead of their new SanDisk Ultra Plus. Still waiting for a slick deal that would persuade me to add another bigger SSD in my laptop.

Hahaha. No disrespect - I was just thoroughly confused by the way you stated that question.


You should keep pursuing an EE diploma - it's useful anywhere! Although CS/CEG job openings are increasing at a staggering rate, EE majors are ALWAYS needed in any company (not just for tech. companies - even Kellogg or the hospital in your area will hire an EE major). It's also easier to secure a life-long career at one company as an EE, while CS/CEG is going the way of short life-cycle projects and contracts that keeps us from finding job security with just one company.


However, here's my concern for you: are you looking to apply for a degree from a military institution (AFIT, Westpoint, etc.), or are you planning on taking night/online classes? I f you are taking online classes, make sure you enroll in a regionally accredited college. The Marine Corps likes to push the University of Maryland courses in the pacific rim since they have a good partnership (and UofM has many satellite campuses in places such as Camp Foster, Kadena AFB, etc.) However, Air Force active duty tends to be spammed with nationally accredited for-profit colleges such as DeVry or Grantham. It may sound counter-intuitive, but you want to be enrolled in a regionally accredited program rather than a nationally accredited program if you're going to pursue a job or a graduate program in the U.S. I've explained the difference in another thread, so I'll see if I can track it down and link it later rather than typing out another 4 paragraphs for description.

The OP's drive is crap. I would pay $140 if it was Sandisk Ultra with 7mm though.
And thanks for the links. Their new drives doesn't look impressive at all. I would just get a Samsung 840, the non-pro version instead of their new SanDisk Ultra Plus. Still waiting for a slick deal that would persuade me to add another bigger SSD in my laptop.


LOL. Absolutely agree with you. I read about ReRAM long time ago, and it seems HP and PR articles just keep promising it'll be commercialized "next year", every year. I'd also dump HP.

It's one thing to be hear about a technology in passing.
It's another thing to read in-depth about the research behind it.
Then it's a bit more different when you get to test a prototype in your hands.
And I think I can safely say it's completely different when you get to make it yourself and test it in a lab.

And it's another thing when the "intern" working next to you passes along the entire framework to his company in Hong Kong that will then make them cheaply available as soon as HP goes to market.

It's one thing to be hear about a technology in passing.


It's another thing to read in-depth about the research behind it.


Then it's a bit more different when you get to test a prototype in your hands.


And I think I can safely say it's completely different when you get to make it yourself and test it in a lab.