First of all I am not here to create a flame or to annoy, just to pose the question. We are told to invest in the latest technology because it is faster and more reliable.
Up until now many PC users have only dealt with Mechanical Hard drives, when it comes to memory they look to the RAM on the Motherboard and perhaps a FLash Drive memory stick. Everyone is familiar with a flash drive and how to erase it and write over it again and again. We depend on it to store our images wen taking photos. And we often get tired of the stuff when it fails to save our data.
On a mechanical Hard disk we are used to antivirus and system security scanning our environment to check for viruses and Bots, and of course the good old disk defragmenter which stops the disk getting clogged up with unnecessary files which lower the performance of the system.
Nobody says much about defragmentation but it still happens with an SSD. In Operating systems like Windows 7 and 8 we are led to believe that Trim takes care of that instead of the old defragmenter. Perhaps in Windows 8 it does but Windows 7 only sets the queue command for it, the disk defragmenter is almost identical to Windows Vista.
So are you right to be worried when they throw all these disclaimers and precautionaries at you when your system is working quite efficiently under a mechanical system. The problem is that with so many different SSD controllers and the newer systems having issue with the older controllers why should you trust the SSD memory controller if it may conflict with a new system if you upgrade in future?
After all your Mechanical drive being Sata 2 at least is compatible with all systems currently available including the SATA 6 contolled systems. Some SSD Drives will not run on Haswell builds because they are not compatible with the early Sandforce contoller or Indilinyx controller. You know what they say, When is a Drive not a drive? When it becomes a brick of course.
Are these new drives produced soley for the new Operating Systems?
Not really, I remember seeing the PCI versions arrive back in 2000 which were then transposed to work in PCI-Express systems, so the technology is not new but the downsizing is. First they appeared in 3.5 inch format and then in 2.5 inch format. On a mechanical hard disk you can see and even change the controller card so you can retrieve data if the Controller goes down. You don't even need the same sized disk controller to retrieve data just an old hard disk with the same controller chipset on it. The new units are sealed and have only the power and data connectors protruding.
They say your SSD should give you many years of use but like anything today it is only garunteed for a year or so. I have heard of many a brick in newer drives both Mechanical and SSD within the last few years. Some people throw caution to the wind in order to see what others are getting out of the new hardware. Naturally as consumer choice increases so will the facilities at the users fingertips. But the lack of an inbuilt Trim (garbage collection system) for those Operating systems which do not fully support it limits the user base. Some people are still using XP and Vista and some MacBooks don't support Trim also. As the drives become larger they will have to cater for the system index or have a variable cache.
You have to be cautious when money is tight and selling a brick may be alright for a housebuilder but is useless to a system builder.
Up until now many PC users have only dealt with Mechanical Hard drives, when it comes to memory they look to the RAM on the Motherboard and perhaps a FLash Drive memory stick. Everyone is familiar with a flash drive and how to erase it and write over it again and again. We depend on it to store our images wen taking photos. And we often get tired of the stuff when it fails to save our data.
On a mechanical Hard disk we are used to antivirus and system security scanning our environment to check for viruses and Bots, and of course the good old disk defragmenter which stops the disk getting clogged up with unnecessary files which lower the performance of the system.
Nobody says much about defragmentation but it still happens with an SSD. In Operating systems like Windows 7 and 8 we are led to believe that Trim takes care of that instead of the old defragmenter. Perhaps in Windows 8 it does but Windows 7 only sets the queue command for it, the disk defragmenter is almost identical to Windows Vista.
So are you right to be worried when they throw all these disclaimers and precautionaries at you when your system is working quite efficiently under a mechanical system. The problem is that with so many different SSD controllers and the newer systems having issue with the older controllers why should you trust the SSD memory controller if it may conflict with a new system if you upgrade in future?
After all your Mechanical drive being Sata 2 at least is compatible with all systems currently available including the SATA 6 contolled systems. Some SSD Drives will not run on Haswell builds because they are not compatible with the early Sandforce contoller or Indilinyx controller. You know what they say, When is a Drive not a drive? When it becomes a brick of course.
Are these new drives produced soley for the new Operating Systems?
Not really, I remember seeing the PCI versions arrive back in 2000 which were then transposed to work in PCI-Express systems, so the technology is not new but the downsizing is. First they appeared in 3.5 inch format and then in 2.5 inch format. On a mechanical hard disk you can see and even change the controller card so you can retrieve data if the Controller goes down. You don't even need the same sized disk controller to retrieve data just an old hard disk with the same controller chipset on it. The new units are sealed and have only the power and data connectors protruding.
They say your SSD should give you many years of use but like anything today it is only garunteed for a year or so. I have heard of many a brick in newer drives both Mechanical and SSD within the last few years. Some people throw caution to the wind in order to see what others are getting out of the new hardware. Naturally as consumer choice increases so will the facilities at the users fingertips. But the lack of an inbuilt Trim (garbage collection system) for those Operating systems which do not fully support it limits the user base. Some people are still using XP and Vista and some MacBooks don't support Trim also. As the drives become larger they will have to cater for the system index or have a variable cache.
You have to be cautious when money is tight and selling a brick may be alright for a housebuilder but is useless to a system builder.
