Anyone heard of these? I've been doing a little reading, and it seems they store all their information electronically. Would they be worth paying extra money for? Thanks.
Solid State Hard Drive
Anyone heard of these? I've been doing a little reading, and it seems they store all their information electronically. Would they be worth paying extra money for? Thanks.
Re: Solid State Hard Drive
I have one, and I love it, because if you install your OS on it you can boot up and be on the internet in ~30 seconds.
I also have a more conventionally hard drive for games and other media and programs.
CR
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Re: Solid State Hard Drive
That's what I wanted to hear. It would be 180 GB which is fine because I don't use a lot of space.
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You should not be allowed to get one before I do, because then I will be filled with envy and incoherent anger.
Yes, SSDs are wickedly wonderful. No, nobody should get one until I have one.
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What Lemur says, yes, EXACTLY what Lemur says, because I'm planning to get one and you can't have one before I do, not even Lemur.
And to answer your questions. I've heard about them three, four or five years ago already. And yes, they seem to be worth it (now that they're <1€/GB), unless you want to use them for data storage.
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Yes.Originally Posted by Ice
CR: get rid of that bloatware! That is at least an order of magnitude too slow.
Yes it would. I found 80GB worked pretty well for me but that was 2-3 years or so ago (Intel X-25M, which essentially was the first consumer SSD that actually delivered the promised goodies) and I used it for development work, not as a speed upgrade for games say. Even so when you are working with lots of data (or Windows VMs) you might want something bigger which is why I got myself a 256GB Samsung 830 unit.
What you want to look for is an SSD which appears to be "balanced". That is you want read or write performance to be relatively "close" to each other and specifically you want to avoid gotcha's like performance metrics of "highly compressible" data vs "not nearly as compressible" data. Right now the "top" brands appear to be Intel and Samsung.
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Re: Solid State Hard Drive
It's not worth the money. My machine starts up in less than 30secs with an HD because I cleaned up most of the crap that insists on starting itself when windows starts. Here is a guide:
https://i.imgur.com/uH2k2.png
Do everything besides disabling the services, unless you really want to. Wait about two years, when the price per GB drops to roughly HD levels.
Oh yeah, do a hard back up to an external source before you do, or hilaritywillmight ensue.
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Re: Solid State Hard Drive
they are so cheap now everyone should use them for the boot drive at least.
bought my first one for £300 two years ago
bought my second one for £60 two months ago
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