SLC lasts 10x longer than MLC and more appropriate for computers, works better (has only 2 state levels, not 3), and it is faster. it is also more robust (less prone to failure). but it comes in much smaller sizes. you don't have to be a business! off the shelf you get the teeny stuff, but the large sizes are reserved for enterprise use... where you start seeing the 1TB drives are the 3.5" form factors. prices have really come down.

1/1/2012.

1/1/2012.

reliable if you use industrial flash. PQI, M-Systems/SanDisk, Bitmicro, and Adtron use Industrial Flash, which is more desireable. 3xMTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) of regular hard disks. 40% faster boot time. much faster read and write times. very expensive 64GB/$1100... SSD's require far less power & generate far less heat than hard disks.
the battery-backed-ram type usually are either a PCI/PCIe card or fits in a 3.5" or 5.25" bay. I suggest you look closely at the wikipidia page for resources! PQI has an enterprise drive in 256GB. the 2.5" can be installed in a laptop probably, or mounted in a 2.5" external USB drive case, or mounted in a 5.25" bay with a bracket (IDE). Prices are expensive now, but are coming down rapidly as flash memory prices come down and density goes up.

appears you can only order if you are a business ordering in bulk. go for their industrial SSD's. forget the DOM (they are for board mounting).

up to 128GB as of Dec 10, 2008. oem 64GB 2.5" SSD SATA. 128GB SATA 2.5" and UATA available, but being EOL'd.

3.5" disks up to 1.6TB also in Ultra320 SCSI, SAS - should blaze! The max that E-disk (the sales arm?) offers is 640GB SATA. BitMicro only sells to companies - not available retail. SCSI drive is 230MB/s sustained. Zoom!

up to 160GB as of Dec 10, 2008. not available retail.

it's a array of 9 RAID-5 removeable Flash SSD disks with DDR SDRAM cache. 6U high rack unit I think. SAN stands for Storage Area Network, which means it appears like local disks to the server. The world's fastest storage. If you have a database you are running, get one of these! Uses SLC Flash which is better than most, has max 100,000writes/block, and under-reporting and wear-leveling is used to evenly distribute the writes, so a card will last for 3.25 years. Smaller-capacity units available. The memory in a RAMSAN can be shared across multiple servers simultaneously. The RamSan does not need to be thrown out when you upgrade your server. RAMSAN is a more economical way to accumulate large memory capacities. Redundant-battery-backed DDR ECC cache RAM with either RAID hard disk or RAID flash to backup to. ChipKill protects data in case a memory chip goes out. Lots of redundancy. If you can boot from SAN, you can boot from RANSAN.
This is for accelerating databases like Oracle and avoiding the expense of upgrading servers, RAM, & RAID (reducing costs) and also for online transaction processing, data warehousing, file system metadata acceleration, database systems, non-linear video editing, software configuration and versioning tools acceleration and testing/benchmarking. Please see Solid State Disk Solutions for more ideas.
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1200megabytes/sec

Have not tried to order. but I bet you have to be a business.

16G,32G,64G models. ordering information on the site is totally useless (maybe even irrelevant) and probably requires a human being. 64G:100MB/S read, 80MB/S write. 3655 North First St., San Jose, CA 95134-1713, Tel: 408-544-4000 FAX: 408-544-4950

4GB NiMH battery-backed-ramdisk.

4GB NiMH battery-backed-ramdisk.

you can buy as a consumer.

smaller sizes available. shop wisely. laptop drives are different than desktop (different interface).

all seem to be 2.5" except for 1 $29 4GB expresscard.

m is high-performance by using a RAID configuration of the flash and is sold to gamers.