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Solid State Drives to work with Rockbox?

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saratoga:
Imagine the battery life with one of those.  

redwood:
Oooh....man put these in any rockboxable unit that has an internal mic and the possibility for news organizations (such as the one I work at) would be fantastic - no more HDD whine on internal mic record, fantastic battery life.....

Sparky:
I've contacted Sandisk, who provided me with information and pricing details on this product.

Being a drop-in replacement for 1.8" drives, it would work with the iPod (or other devices with 1.8" harddrives), although the depth (height) of the drive with its metal casing is 8mm. The 30GB iPod has a 5mm depth harddrive. This means that the larger case (for the 60/80GB model) would have to be used, or the metal case to be taken off the SSD. Doing the latter would void the warranty for the SSD.

The price for a single SSD would be around $1500 (about £760). It would begin to look extremely interesting with a 64GB SSD that would fit perfectly into an iPod. If I can remember, other companies are developing 1.8" SSDs with a capacity of 64GB (nothing on price yet though).

michael.conner:
I wonder if that would be a problem with an iRiver H120 and a high-capacity battery... I've got a 2200mAh battery in it, which is a bit thicker than the stock battery, so it's already a slightly tighter fit than normally.

piquadrat:
AFAIK, these discs need a special file system that prevents extensive write operations to single sectors. For instance, the file access table from a FAT32 partition is read and written very often, which would destroy the associated sectors on the SSD pretty fast. So SSDs aren't just drop-in replacements for regular hard drives, rockbox first needs to support such a file system (like JFFS) to prevent premature disc failures.

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