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- TimtheTaxMan, on 06/29/2009, -1/+25It is going to be awesome when these things are finally affordable. What is the old adage? “You’re only as fast as your slowest part.” Slowest part = drives.
- pathouston22, on 06/29/2009, -0/+19Except that SSDs have been out for some time now, and their pros/cons are well known and documented.
- xombi242, on 06/29/2009, -0/+19$800.00 pal.
- goeric, on 06/29/2009, -0/+17Let me know when large SSD's are affordable.
- JKAL, on 06/29/2009, -0/+121 page
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com ... - keyo, on 06/29/2009, -0/+11That site is so damn ugly.
- crimson117, on 06/29/2009, -0/+11Check out anandtech for a comprehensive look at SSDs: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=35 ...
- ToastPop, on 06/29/2009, -0/+11You just asked a question.
- Tubal22, on 06/29/2009, -1/+12You want to look at random read/write times. Not sequential.
Intel x25-e is around 50X faster. (56x according to anandtech) - Jektal, on 06/29/2009, -0/+8Boot-up times? Power-consumption? Installing applications? Ripping DVDs for watching while traveling? Launching games/loading levels?
And the question gets sillier if you remove the notebook qualification, as 64GB is very feasible (although not ideal) for an OS/applications drive in a desktop with a separate drive/array for data. - jpowlus, on 06/29/2009, -0/+8I have a bunch of those OCZ Vertex drives he mentions in the article... they are stupid-fast, so I can't even imagine having the X25-E. Intel is supposedly introducing their new drives in 2 weeks which will increase the speed but also dramatically increase the size (up to 320GB, or so I've read).
- gridbread, on 06/29/2009, -0/+7Yay, SSD is finally becoming a mainstream staple, can't wait to be free of moving parts.
- Calamier, on 06/29/2009, -2/+8WANT
- snake1025, on 06/29/2009, -0/+4winsxs short for "Windows Sucks"?
</troll> - inactive, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3Cool.
SSD's are long overdue. It always struck me as anachronistic that we still have these things whirring around in our comps. - alarchy, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3The E models are intended for RAID arrays in an Enterprise setting, where super high I/O is way more important than capacity (SQL servers, etc).
Their M models are a bit slower, but half the cost and higher capacity - so there you go. - inactive, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3if affordable, why wouldnt you want one over a mecahnical drive? My laptop drive is only 80 gigs, a little larger albeit, but i dont need much for my laptop uses, and all my media and such i keep on my various smb shares.
- UselessTrivia, on 06/29/2009, -1/+3Drives will probably continue to be the slowest part forever. We'll always need storage, but we don't need all of our storage to be the same speed, hence the tiered structure we've had since the dark ages: Cache->RAM->Disk->Tape->etc...
We'll always put the stuff we don't need very often on stuff that's cheaper and slower. - pedepy, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2hopefully these will become even cheaper still ... my laptop's hdd is 160gb; popping in a ~ 120gb blazing fast ssd for read-intensive data (such as the operating system and application) would surely give my 2 year old laptop some new life
thats my plan anyway - inactive, on 06/29/2009, -1/+3still waiting on a brain drive encased in bone
- ps3241, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2Should have gotten this rather than a stupid writable bluray drive.
- jezsik, on 06/29/2009, -1/+3Dammit I need more sleep. I read the headline as "Review of Iran's Fascist State Drive" and thought "fascist state drive"? Clever pun!
OK, time for a nap. - FAHQ2, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2Too bad windows 7 and windows vista eat up storage space with thir winsxs folder, making them unsuitable for small fast SSD drives:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/G ... - UselessTrivia, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1Yeah, it's just the nature of SSD memory. Random reads theoretically take no longer than sequential reads.
Once they get these down to 150 a pop for 500GB I'll buy 3 and build a RAID5 set for my home system. - ImperialSoren, on 06/29/2009, -4/+5*****, vertex ssd is all I use for they system disks now, son.
- jasdf, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1Great article.
- zombies187, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1How did you do that? One of the reasons I come to the comment pages on digg is for links like this. How do you do that?
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -2/+3Really? (I was trying to remember the random times)
I don't remember it being soooo much better, but maybe I'm mistaken. I just looked at it on Newegg though - $750 for 64 GB = ~5x 150 GB 10K Raptors... - inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1Useles: you'll be waiting for a while...
- jasdf, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1The HDD on my computer randomly grinds away for minutes at a time, it pisses me off and I give my computer the middle finger and make a mad face.
- Feldon, on 07/05/2009, -0/+1Never be the first person to run out and get the news ans shinest hardware wait a fue months till they work out all the bugs. SSD aren't read yet.
- jasdf, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1Price??? I'd rather have a 120GB drive that is affordable than a large one that isn't.
- Platypus3333, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1I can't tell if people digging you down don't get it, or just don't appreciate it.
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -1/+1did anyone read that article on gizmodo or engadget, about the SSDs getting memory upgrades of up to 320gb, and being cheaper to, I hope so, I'll probably get one if they do release a 320gb affordable SSD
- xombi242, on 06/29/2009, -2/+2any more vague Gibson references, anyone?
- nogami, on 06/29/2009, -2/+2I picked up one of the Intel X25-M drives (disclaimer: work paid for it). Went with the 160GB version because the single-level flash is just too small. The performance on my Macbook Pro is pretty amazing. Boot time cut in half (cold-start to desktop in ~25 seconds). Opening applications is lightning fast.
The firmware update that came out a few months ago was pretty nice too. It's still too expensive, but the price should start dropping now that they've indicated ~300+gb drives are on the horizon. - ml4rocky, on 06/29/2009, -4/+4I want one. No questions asked. How fast can it be delivered and installed?
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -0/+0I'd settle for $200 / 150 GB at those speeds - thats what I bought my Raptor for.
- bradmw2, on 06/29/2009, -1/+0Yes, drives are the slowest part of every single applications that has ever been designed....
Just give me faster RAM please. - rabidgoose, on 06/29/2009, -5/+3I've been thinking about getting a netbook with an SSD drive just for lightweight web-only travel use, but...
http://linkthe.com/2009/06/18/why-hard-disk-is-a-b ...
makes me wonder if SSD is really worth it. - inactive, on 06/29/2009, -9/+6The drive is something like 2-3x faster than a 10k RPM Raptor, but costs ~3x more.
Inexorably, the technology will get cheaper and then we can all have one for $150 from Newegg :D - Lane, on 06/29/2009, -7/+2Sure it's impressive but I ask you, what use does this have in a notebook? 64 gigs isn't really a whole lot of space to edit video and that's pretty much the only use I can think of to justify it for consumer use. A 120 gig with 150mb I/O would be much more practical and half the cost.
- kingofinternet, on 06/29/2009, -8/+3nothing can beat my ono-sendai cyberspace 7.
- fgdg56, on 06/29/2009, -12/+3Can't concentrate with Brüno staring at my coogle-sack.
- PeanutCheeseBar, on 06/29/2009, -14/+3You were probably an early adopter of Vista, weren't you?
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