Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:46:15 -0600 | From | "Chris Friesen" <> | Subject | Re: solid state drive access and context switching |
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Jared Hulbert wrote:
> Magnetic drives have latencies ~10 milliseconds, current SSD's are an > order of magnitude better (~1 millisecond), new interfaces and > refinements could theoretically get us down one more (~100 > microsecond).
They've already done already better than that. Here's a solid state drive with a claimed 20 microsecond access time:
http://www.curtisssd.com/products/drives/hyperxclr
Chris
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