Negatives of SSD Drives?

matthewprince

matthewprince

matthewprince

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COuld somebody tell me what the negatives are of having a SSD hard drive instead of the usual sata or ide?

Im thinking of getting 2 as ive been told they are much much faster.


Matt
 
Hi,

The price im not fussed about , but what do you mean sustained transfer speeds?

Im thinking of getting 2 of the 64gb ssd drives on overclockers website. WOuld they be any good?

Matt
 
I've got a pair of them in RAID, great drives. But even in RAID sustained read and write speeds are only on a par with a single mechanical drive, but the 0.1ms access time blows mechanical drives away for small files.
 
If you really don't care about price you could get the smallest fusion-io drive for the price of a couple of those 64GB SSDs...only 80GB but SSD access time and amazing sustained read and write speeds (700MB/s).
 
The ones out now have lower speed and much lower capacity, but both problems will be fixed over time. The biggest problems are the fact that the memory can only be written to a limited number of times. Also data cannot be recovered from a SSD drive as it can from a mechanical harddrive.

However the positives are really fantastic, low seek time, extremely low really, lower power consumption and the best - no noise.
 
If cost isn't important to you then send me some money :D £20,000 should pay off that student loan..

Back on topic:

*Cost
*Size
 
kablooey said:
If you really don't care about price you could get the smallest fusion-io drive for the price of a couple of those 64GB SSDs...only 80GB but SSD access time and amazing sustained read and write speeds (700MB/s).
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Wow - those are amazing - given the speed I have to say the $2000 price tag for the 80Gb on isn't bad - just wish I had the cash! (Hate to think how much the 300Gb on is!)
 
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