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Speaker 1: Brain with today's question, what are the fastest hard disk

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Speaker 1: drives available today? If you look back through the recent

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Speaker 1: history of personal computers, you can see that there's been

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Speaker 1: a trend toward faster and faster hard disc drives and connections.

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Speaker 1: Several years ago, the standard was a spinning mechanical hard

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Speaker 1: disk drive connected to a parallel A T A connector.

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Speaker 1: Then the industry transition to a serial A T A connector,

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Speaker 1: first at one point five gigabits per second, then at

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Speaker 1: three gigabits per second, and now it's six gigabits per second.

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Speaker 1: No mechanical hard disc can really keep up with a

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Speaker 1: six gigabit per second connection. The reason they put that

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Speaker 1: in place is because of solid state drives. These drives

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Speaker 1: can actually pump data fast enough to make use of

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Speaker 1: that connection. So that's the latest high speed standard. But

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Speaker 1: people always want to go faster, so now they're taking

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Speaker 1: solid state drives, putting them on cards, connecting them straight

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Speaker 1: into the motherboard using the pc I express connection. Right now,

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Speaker 1: that offers a speed of about one gigabyte per second,

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Speaker 1: and it could go all the way up to about

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Speaker 1: eight gigabytes per second with the current pc I Express design.

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Speaker 1: These drives are described by one magazine as brain melting

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Speaker 1: lea fast. They can transfer a one gigabyte file and

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Speaker 1: about one second. Right now, these super fast drives are

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Speaker 1: fairly expensive, about fifty cents a gigabyte compared to a

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Speaker 1: dime per gigabyte for a norm most spinning hard disc.

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Speaker 1: But even these aren't the fastest hard discs available. If

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Speaker 1: you want to be the fastest, you would take dynamic RAM,

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Speaker 1: put it on a board, and plug that into the

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Speaker 1: pc I Express slot. Dynamic RAM has some disadvantages. It's

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Speaker 1: pretty big, relatively speaking, and you have to keep power

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Speaker 1: to back it up in case the power goes out

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Speaker 1: or somebody turns off the machine. And it's also pretty

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Speaker 1: expensive about twenty dollars per gigabyte or so. However, it

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Speaker 1: is shockingly fast, much faster than flash memory. You could,

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Speaker 1: in theory, think of it as using up the entire

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Speaker 1: PC I Express bandwidth. For more on this and thousands

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