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I am thinking about this for my new laptop since my existing one is out warranty and I want more power. I have looked as Dell, HP and Sonys. The t9400 proc and DDR3 memory is what does it for me. Any other ones I should be looking at?
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/systemconfig.runtime.workflow:LoadRuntimeTree?sb=:00000025:000019CF:&smid=1BE480ADA7EB421099C1676099E3EA34
P.s Anyone want to buy a slightly used 17 inch dv9335nr? Upgraded to Mojave ultimate and 4GB of RAM.
ThinkPad T500 - 1 Yr Depot Warranty
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo processor T9400 (2.53GHz 1066MHz 6MBL2)
Operating system : Genuine Windows Vista Business 64
Operating system language : Genuine Windows Vista Business 64 US English
Display type: 15.4" WSXGA+ TFT, w/ CCFL Backlight
System graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD
Total memory: 4 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1067MHz SODIMM Memory (2 DIMM)
Keyboards: Keyboard US English
Pointing Device: UltraNav (TrackPoint and TouchPad)
Hard Drive: 160 GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm
Intel® Turbo Memory hard drive cache : Intel Turbo Memory 2GB
Optical device : CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo 24X/24X/24X/8X Max, Ultrabay Slim (Serial ATA)
System expansion slots : Express Card Slot & PC Card Slot
Wireless card: ThinkPad 11b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Express Adapter III
Battery: 6 cell Li-Ion Battery
Country Pack: Country Pack North America with Line cord & 65W AC adapter
Language pack: Language Pack US English
Found this while reading the SSD article on intel's new laptop SSD. The game is going to change and it is going to change fast. Hell, I might go buy some intel stock!
A beach tip from a cousin in law that works at EMC. Here is the press release. I am not going to go into a lot of txt but this is the tipping point. Get ready for a wild ride. Soon 1GB network connections won't be enough! Related posts: SSD
I have been drooling over following Texas Memory Systems for a couples years and more recently, BitMicro.
I am not comparing the products that the companies sell because they are different products and the measurements are not the same. These bullets are mainly for drool factor and background for a post that I will refer you too.
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Texas Memory Systems:
RamSan-400 SSD SAN
The World's Fastest Storage®
First solid state disk with 4Gb Fibre Channel interfaces.
First solid state disk with 4x InfiniBand interfaces.
Over 400,000 random I/Os per second.
3000 MB/s random sustained external throughput.
Full array of hardware redundancy to ensure availability.
BitMicro:
E-Disk® Altima™ 4Gb Fibre Channel 3.5" Solid State Drive
Now these are numbers from the manufacturers. Lots of missing info like read\write numbers. Numbers for different sizes of reads and writes etc. However, did I say WOW?
I am making this post because I ran across a blog post by Mike Ault on a FriendFeed conversation.
Mike address's these SSD "lies"
1. Solid state drive technology is very expensive2. Solid state devices are best when directly attached to the internal bus architecture3. Solid state drives will only be niche players4. You can get the same IO rate from disks as from SSD
and he ends with this quote:
I am not afraid to say it: SSD technology is here, it is ready for prime time and it is only a matter of time before disks are relegated to second tier storage. Disks are dead, they just don’t know it yet.
We can only hope so :) I highly recommend reading the whole posts here.
I hope Microsoft is watching this technology. Sure, SQL will like a SSD SAN right now but I bet it could be heavily be optimized to run on SSD.
edit: link fixed