timwhit
Hairy Aussie
How come they didn't test it against a single SSD?
How come they didn't test it against a single SSD?
Because it would get spanked. I didn't read a single negative thing about the drive in the whole review.
Not a very good review then is it?
I only want 15-20 GB for boot drive, etc., not 300GB. I hope there will be a 150 GB version to replace my nearly 5-year old 74GB drive.
Microsoft KBA warning, though, Vista won't install on even a 48GB drive.
My Vista Ultimate with everything installed except a handful of the extra languages is running at 16.7GB.40-GB hard disk that has 15 GB of free hard disk space (the 15GB of free space provides room for temporary file storage during the install or upgrade.)
Microsoft KB
My Vista Ultimate with everything installed except a handful of the extra languages is running at 16.7GB.
Edit: I wonder what RPM would manage a rotational latency of 0.1ms.
Seems pretty obvious why they aren't mainstream. With a 15-30 year life span, you wouldn't exactly be out shopping for new drives very often. So, SSD buyer=lost customer.
5.9 vs. 7.6ms? Rather strange they didn't compare the VR against 15k drives.
HMMMM.
Would be rather cool if they made one that worked for laptops, and it didn't cost as much as the laptop...
Using Ubuntu off a 4200 rpm drive right now, and, it's not bad.
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600,000 RPM would do the trick, if you could get seek time to zero.
Who wants to build some cases for these?
Very interesting find. They don't move and don't generate heat; why do you need a case at all? Do what I've done and attach them using double-sided poster tape to the underside of an optical drive; keeps it out of the way and easy to change cases.
I'd be worried about static shock or blunt force trauma wrecking a $350 drive. Plus, I doubt it has any kind of warranty. You buy one first and let me know how it works, then I will follow.
However, the use of an apostrophe to remove ambiguity of a plural abbreviation is allowed. Hence the apostrophe is actually ok.SSDs is the plural of SSD. It is not possessive in this case and therefore does not take the apostrophe.
SSD v Mechanical 2.5"
Two years before crossover I'd say. The $ per gigabyte isn't there yet, and in a lot of tasks, the performance isn't either (yet). 1 year warranty versus 3/5. No thanks.
http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/15079
Call me when they extend the warranty to something reasonable.
When you buy a SSD you're buying something that has a fixed life cycle. A SSD will stop working correctly after some number of writes. A HD has no such limitation.