SSD data storage

[Etopia]

Thats many year the whole computeur power change a lot.
Pross , ram , power , fan , Grapghic card and so on , but , HDD was still something with not much change.
They did improve yes , but not as much as the rest.
Now a new generation of data storage because its no more HDD just born.SSD.
It works like flash memorie from usb key , its very very fast, no mouvement , and seems very nice to use.
Access 0.1
transfert rate arouns 100 meg sec.

So around 10 time faster than all normal HDD...

Does anyone have test them ?


PS: sorry for mods , dunno where put this... maybe time to have a tecky forum?
I mean most of us may speak about tech here and there , and its compliant to EU ...

[Midori Fairlona]

Originally Posted by Etopia

PS: sorry for mods , dunno where put this... maybe time to have a tecky forum?
I mean most of us may speak about tech here and there , and its compliant to EU ...

Like this one?

[Etopia]

Originally Posted by Midori Fairlona

Like this one?

no i see it like about tecniqual problem in EU.
Not about tecnical stuff in genral.
Semms to me to be more "my vid card dont work with EU" than " did someone tested that new storage" or "i love my new keybord"...

But maybe me dont understand....

[sahel]

A nice test where they put up a Mitron ssd drive vs a wd raptor, using different (raid) setups. It's a dutch website / review, but you'll have no probs understanding the numbers:

the numbers:
http://tweakers.net/benchdb/test/288

the review (also a video)
http://core.tweakers.net/nieuws/5262...tijktests.html


Seems very promising

[Solaris]

Definately a techy thingy

But with all that said, I have same questions as Etoopia here.

In near future I will need myself a new pc. Been playing this on labtop for too long, and it simply becomes too hot and shuts down/crashes on me.

So what should I go for next? Is all this new SSD worthy the money, or should we wait and ride off the worst hype??

[aridash]

Solid State drives are still very expenisve on a price/GB basis. but then you need to ask yourself if you really need 160GB, 250GB or more. stop and work it out and you might consider that 16GB is all you need for OS and a few key apps. How much is the performance really worth to you, a 16GB drive is over £200.

Technically they do in theory have a much shorter life span than a traditional magnetic hard drive, though your unlikly to ever reach the maximum read/write cycles.

Id hold back untill the technology has matured and become cheaper. unless you are on the bleeding edge everywhere else (best CPU, GPU, fastest memory etc) the improvements probably arent worth it.

[Hardicus]

I think there's no doubt SSD will eventually replace HDD, unless something newer and cheaper comes along. But yeah as usual, wait until the price drops a bit.

[rhogenbe]

SSD disk have been around a long time. They were just way out of the price league for us normal people. They are starting to come down in price fast now.

Alienware has them already a few months as an optional upgrade for their PC's and laptops.

I so far only used it with a customer to place a database on it. This gave an approx 8 times better data throughput.

I am just waiting for the bigger ones to get a bit more cheap. There is a prediction that in 2 years time half the PC en laptops will be sold with SSD. And that 2 years later the normal HD's will be museum pieces.

Cheers
Siam

[OnTarget]

Ive sold a few of these and they are very impressive. As stated the technology isn't new its been around a very long time, its actually where AMD made most of their money before processors and now videocards.

It simply comes down to money. If you have a high disposable income go for it. Just be aware that prices will drop significantly over the next 6-12 months. 16GB versions are really quite reasonable at the moment and 40GB units are dropping fast. As an operating system drive their great, Especially with Vista. The performance increase with these drives coupled with Vistas new solid state driver developments make it a very viable option. You could even use it as a Ram booster if you so felt like it.

On reliability the are much better than current magnetic HDD's, The warranty rate over the past 36 months for the desktop brands I sell (WD, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi) has been horrible. About 70% fail within or close to their warranty period which is up from about 20%. I think this can be explained by how cheap HDD's are now. I don;t think the price drop can only be to do with increased production, cuts must have been made elsewhere. Out of interest Hitachi seems to be the most reliable, the others have a very similar failure rate. Please remember these are not official stats they are just observations from my business.

As far as solid state for Laptops, there are great gains to be had here as they run much cooler, use less power and the obvious, no moving parts to break.

There have been advancements recently in magnetic drives as well lately but only down to how the data is written to the platter. This is however a big improvement to seek times and reliability,

I hope you find this useful.

OnTarget

[Omnedon]

The only real problem with solid state is the limited write cycles, the lowest I have seen is 10k, with most new devices being rated for at least 100k. At the low end of 10k, you could over-write the device once per day for almost 30 years. For 2gb (the largest I currently own) 10k writes would be around 20 terabytes.

While you would not want to put your pagefile on one, if your motherboard supports booting from it, you could put your OS there. Can also put EU there as the only time it would be re-written would be for VU updates.