I think 80BG/s for write speed is a bit too much, shouldn't it be 80MB/s .

I don't think it can write at 80GB/s!

Back in the days of PATA devices (wich I suppose we all still live in at some level) we had ATA 100 or 133 which had a throughput of 97MB/s and 115MB/s respectively and we could put 2 devices on a cable to share that bandwidth. Harddrives at the time could put out a burst speed maxing out this bandwidth, but it would only last for a fraction of a sec and then drop down to an average of about 20-30 MB/s or for those of us with the top of the line it would go up to 50-60 MB/s per device, and because you rarely used both devices on a cable at the same time (unless you were on raid) this was never an issue of bottleneck.

Then game SATA at a blazing 1.5Gb/s AKA 187MB/s (any time there is a small 'b' you devide by 8), and this was dedicated to each and every single device. At the time we were still running HDDs that caped out at 60MB/s, but it didnt matter because the interface only lasted a year before SATAII 3Gb/s or 375MB/s per device! Now we have this HDD at the bleeding edge of technology that can barely reach 100MB/s.

Now is it just me, or is this overkill? Or is there a reason for this insane ammount of throughput that I'm just not aware of? I'm all for faster interfaces but I hate the fact that I have all this potental that cannot be harnesed. Why cant the manufacturers of drives keep up?

Okay, so it's clearly a typo, which I'm sure several comments have been submitted for thus far. Although, I imagine this may be a speed my grandkids could see someday.

Now I know you must make some mistakes intentionally just to keep us readers entertained! LOL Otherwise, there would be the statement, "yes thats correct an incredible 80 GB/s".

Is this right? This doesn't make sense to me. The SATAII protocol is designed for up to 3Gb/s and yet you can rewrite the entire drive in under a second? On the other hand, power efficiency is nice.

With mass production comes lower prices since cost is distributed over many items.

It would be neat to see a combo drive where it contains two drives in one; C: drive being the SDD part and D: drive being the HDD part. It would look - outwardly - as just one drive. :) With mass production of SSD, it would be more affordable and have the best of both worlds.

Just think about it.
80 GB/s!! I'd buy that drive in a heartbeat even if it's $2000 or more.

80 GB/s in write?? i think 80MB/s in write is right.

80GB/S???

80GB/s???
So cool~

I think everyone will know its 80MB/sec but just in case..

The speed of these drives are perfect, hopefully they will manage to drive down the prices as thats what puts a stick in the wheel.

Can they also mass produce lower prices for SSDs!!! Still so freaking expensive...

Lukes lyke a tiepografikal air.

"According to the manufacturer, the new drives are about 60% faster than the SATA I generation and reach data read speeds of up to 100 MB/s and 80 GB/s in write processes"

will if i can write 80GB/s the i will fill the drive with a file of size 60GB in less than a second!!

we know that reading is faster than writing in SSD's..
i think you meant 80MB/s..

Any thoughts on pricing? Speeds of SSDs have been disappointing at best of late...

Cable tech is not always used for a single drive. SATA II is an external protocol too. I have a RAID 0 drive set connected via a single SATA II cable to my DVR.

The other problem of speed on a drive is pure physics. A traditional or rotational hard drive has to spin its platters, and move the arm around. Now, sometimes i have wondered why there is only 1 ARM per HD, but my hunch has to do with lifespan and the more ARMs, the greater chance of a head crash.

SSD offers a new potential to grow performance more linearly with size. As device size increases, so do the number of writable unites or blocks. I think that Flash card makers could improve the speed more drastically, but that would be a lot of work and it would drive costs up.

The SSD market seems to be chasing the 160GB drive market, once they hit that mark, you will see performance become more of an issue than size.

As i understand it, the speed declared for the old Pata drives where peak speeds, IE the the speed in which you could empty the buffer on the HDD after that i droped to almost 1/3rd of the labled speed. with Sata SSD it should be sustained write and read speeds.

This is good because SATA 2 has the ability to handle more than just 2 devices. You can chain 3 of these on one port and share the 3 Gbps bandwidth between all devices! You could chain 10 of them together on one port!

This is exciting stuff folks! It may cost money now but it is gonna be dirt cheap FAST!

Next person to point out the 80 Gbps gets a red star too! Yay!