The guts of REDRAM?

[Clayton Harper]

Whatcha wanna bet this is what's going in the REDRAM 64GB:

http://www.sandisk.com/Corporate/PressRoom/PressReleases/PressRelease.aspx?ID=3732

I wonder if you could mod your 320gb Red Drive casing with a couple of these things. OEM cost is listed as $350 per drive.

[Tom Lowe]

http://www.sandisk.com/assets/Products/130/SSD%20SATA%20%205000%202%205%20inch%20with%20refle ction.gif

What is the write speed on those things?

Would it be possible to drop 20 of these suckers into a performance RAID configured box and record RAW, uncompressed high-fps 4K footage to it?

If the write speed was, say, 50MB/s, that would be 640GBs of recording space at 1000MB/s... :weight_lift:

[Jeff Kilgroe]

I'm not sure why I think this... But I'm thinking that if RED offers a RED RAID system that can record directly from the optical port, that's exactly what it will be. A stack of solid-state 2.5" or even 1.8" drives in a box that can handle the full 10G data rate and provide for about an hour of 4.5K @ 60fps.

Maybe I'm off base on that one though, but as soon as those SSDs hit 2.5" @ 128GB at the end of this year, that's what I'm going to be seriously thinking about.

[Finner]

Does anyone know why RED decided to go with the 1.8" flash on camera module rather then the 2.5"? It just seems to me that the 2.5" would be a better option to be able to get larger memory cards.

[Clayton Harper]

What is the write speed on those things?


Funny they only mention the read speed in the press release, right?

Finner, I assume red is looking at 1.8" drives as being small enough to fit on the side of the camera. I have a feeling though that the laptop market for 2.5" size flash drives is gonna push the price down way faster compared to the 1.8"s.

[Finner]

Finner, I assume red is looking at 1.8" drives as being small enough to fit on the side of the camera. I have a feeling though that the laptop market for 2.5" size flash drives is gonna push the price down way faster compared to the 1.8"s.

I suspect the same thing, that 2.5" stand a better chance of being a more common and possibly cheaper option over the 1.8". It seems like the RED team has done their research and made some very good decisions. I just can't help but feel like a 2.5" version for the side of the camera would be a better option for us users. If it is still possible for RED too develop a 2.5" It may be better for all of us. Others with more I.T. experience may be able to comment on this better.

By the way thank you RED team for making the flash memory option open to the open flash market. This was a big favour to all of us.

[Anders Holck]

The spec PDF is here: http://www.sandisk.com/Assets/File/OEM/Manuals/SSD_Family_brochure_80-11-01400_Rev3_0307.pdf
(Look at the 2.5" only. The 1.8" is not a SATA device)

Says 45 MB/s write performance.
Rememer it is a preliminary spec sheet though...from the seller....

At these prices though the 1.8" form factor for on-board is preferable. I would assume portable mediaplayers, GPS devices and PDA's etc. would also drive those 1.8" prices down as well.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

I suspect the same thing, that 2.5" stand a better chance of being a more common and possibly cheaper option over the 1.8".

I think the same thing. RED probably chose the 1.8" because of size and I'm betting their FLASH module will hold two of them in a RAID-0 config.