Home | Forums | Article Search | Subscribe & Shop | Contact Us | Log Out Ridata 1.8” IDE Solid State Disk Email This Print This View My Personal Library Heavy Gear January 2008 • Vol.8 Issue 1 Page(s) 33 in print issue Add To My Personal Library Ridata 1.8” IDE Solid State Disk Jump to first occurrence of: [RIDATA] 1.8” Solid State Disk $399 Ridata www.ritekusa.com CPU Rating: 3.5 Specs: 44-pin female (1.8-inch) Ultra DMA 100Mbps connector; 3.3V; 6mA to 120mA power consumption; Reed-Solomon ECC; dynamic wear-leveling; 4 million-hour MTBF; 2 million-cycle write endurance SSDs are more of a boon to mobile devices and servers than to desktop PCs thus far, so here’s a 16GB NAND-SLC (single-level cell) model in the 1.8-inch form factor. It isn’t as fast as the 2.5-inch Mtron SSDs I tested in the November 2007 issue of CPU (see page 34), but it will provide portable devices with relatively whip-cracking data accesses, high shock tolerance, and low power consumption. Ridata mentioned that the SSD will fit into mobile PCs such as the Samsung Q1 and NP-Q1, along with Motion Computing’s LS800, LE1600, and LE1700. I didn’t have any 1.8-inch hard drives on hand for a direct comparison within the form factor, but I did find a 2.5-inch Seagate ST9160823ASG. Note that the Ridata uses a female, 44-pin ATA connector that physically resembles CompactFlash’s, like an iPod’s hard drive. I connected it to a standard 39-pin IDE cable using Addonics AAT18IDE25 and Rosewill RCW-603 adapters. This SSD had the edge in boot time and power consumption but ceded the general performance crown to the notebook hard drive. Mind you, the Ridata would look better next to a 1.8-inch hard drive with a slower rotational speed. by Marty Sems Ridata 16GB SSD 1.8" Seagate Momentus 7200.2 160GB 2.5" Interface 44-pin female (1.8-inch) IDE SATA 1.5GBps (w/ NCQ) Boot to desktop* (min:sec) 0:55 1:10 PCMark05 1.2.0 (points) 5545 5949 HDD Score (points) 2779 4647 XP Startup (MBps) 5.7 7.9 Application Loading (MBps) 4.4 5.9 General Usage (MBps) 3.7 4.7 Virus Scan (MBps) 34.3 81 File Write (MBps) 21.7 50.1 HD Tach RW 3.0.4.0, Long Bench Read rates, average/maximum (MBps) 37.7/39 47.8/63 Random access time* (ms) 0.9 14.2 Write rates, average/maximum (MBps) 30.5/34 44.2/57 Burst read rate (MBps) 40.6 130.5 CPU Utilization* (% +/- 2%) 1 2 Iometer 2006.07.27 File Server (IOps) 212.9 89.7 File Server (MBps) 2.3 1 File Server avg/max response* (ms) 75.1/311.4 178.3/475.3 Web Server (IOps) 1492.44 109.4 Web Server (MBps) 23.1 1.6 Web Server avg/max response* (ms) 42.9/170.2 584.1/1312.3 Test system: Vista Home Premium, Core 2 Duo E6700 2.67GHz, 2GB DDR2 (1,066MHz), Intel D975XBX2KR, Radeon HD 2600 XT * Lower is better.  User Reviews Be the first to write a review of this product Want more information about a topic you found of interest while reading this article? Type a word or phrase that identifies the topic and click "Search" to find relevant articles from within our editorial database. Enter A Subject (key words or a phrase): ALL Words (‘digital’ AND ‘photography’) ANY Words (‘digital’ OR ‘photography’) Exact Match ('digital photography'- all words MUST appear together) Home      Copyright & Legal Information      Privacy Policy      Site Map      Contact Us Copyright © 2009 Sandhills Publishing Company U.S.A. All rights reserved.