My first Solid State Hard drive

wombraider · 20 Apr 2007 at 00:33

I bought one of these 2.5" laptop solid state hard drives and I just though I would share my hdtach test info.
model was
32GB Samsung MCAQE32G5APP-0XA00 Solid State Drive, 2.5" IDE (PATA)

impressions , very very light as its mainly plastic case and single pcb

Speed is definitly faster than the current 2.5" drives I have been using. it only uses the ata66 speed interface mind you.

Price , hmm if the company i worked for were not paying for it I think it would be a while before i got one. was £313 inc vat
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naro · 20 Apr 2007 at 01:37

nice.. a pity that its on the ATA66 interface. imagine it on the SATA2 interface..

Will_3rd · 20 Apr 2007 at 01:59

That's a pretty poor HDTach score, must be limited by the interface it uses

james.miller · 20 Apr 2007 at 02:00

sod that for a bag of peanuts.

skanky · 20 Apr 2007 at 06:50

wombraider said:
Price , hmm if the company i worked for were not paying for it I think it would be a while before i got one. was £313 inc vat

haha i'd live with the extra few seconds it takes for me to do stuff, i dont care how lightning fast it is, £313 for 32GB, rofl!

Things change I've changed · 20 Apr 2007 at 08:45

intresting, I wonder if using one of these would help boost my laptops battery performance significantly, what's the power consumption ?

mosfet · 20 Apr 2007 at 12:59

lowrider007 said:
intresting, I wonder if using one of these would help boost my laptops battery performance significantly, what's the power consumption ?

IIRC negligible when non-operating, peaks at 0.9w during read/write.

I doubt this is vastly limited by the interface, using SATA 3Gbps wouldn't make much of a difference.

Alex_6n2 · 20 Apr 2007 at 13:04

Nice and flat though