Solid state drives

The benchmarks and tests I've seen show they're not as quick as you'd expect. They've definitely got the potential to be blazingly fast, but they're not there yet.
 
The new ones tested last week on THG have about same read as our HDD's now but writes are still low, they are getting there.

Be nice no real heat, no noise and near zero seeks lol, Raid0 2 of them.
 
You considered a hybrid drive as a stopgap (if they're out yet)? I believe the Samsung MH80 is out now or coming out soon, in 80, 120, and 160GB sizes with 256MB NAND flash on board.
 
enigmo said:
You considered a hybrid drive as a stopgap (if they're out yet)? I believe the Samsung MH80 is out now or coming out soon, in 80, 120, and 160GB sizes with 256MB NAND flash on board.
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early benchmarks show little performance benefits
 
I have a 8gb samsung ssd in my media pc for a boot disk (storage drive on spin down) with a cut down vista on it. Its slower than a standard hard drive, but then again read/write > access times upto about 70mb/s. Once they cross that they should start to look faster for general windows use. Obviously you could raid 4 if your made of money but then again I guess you'd already have a hyperdrive :eek:
 
Prolly less of a benefit, speedwise, but would getting a 3.5" USB cardreader unit and making a CF card bootable be just as quiet and pretty quick if you get one of the new, 'extreme' ones? Not RAIDable, obviously, but do-able?
 
enigmo said:
Prolly less of a benefit, speedwise, but would getting a 3.5" USB cardreader unit and making a CF card bootable be just as quiet and pretty quick if you get one of the new, 'extreme' ones? Not RAIDable, obviously, but do-able?
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about 40mb/s and ~£100 for an 8gb version
 
Not greatly cheaper than a SSD then. Although that 4xSD Card IDE box from Century Japan looks interesting ;) A HCSD compatible version might make it a viable option.
 
For laptops they offer one advantage that standard HDs can't match - no moving parts to be affected by moving the laptop.

I looked at the 32GB but I'm already at 40GB out of 160GB on my MBP. If I cut down OSX language support, store my downloaded apps dmg files on my RAID5 array and keep my iTunes to a minimum then 32GB could be possible..

My desktop PC only has a 36GB raptor that manages XP, BF2142, C&C3, X3!
 
I'll be glad when technology finally moves to something like a solid state drive, but showing a clear cut improvement over standard hard drives and not much more expensive. But really the cost is far too high and the drives themselves aren't great.

Have looked at them a couple of times, and was near close to buying one, but really just went the direction of "buying it for the sake of it to see what they are like", so didn't bother.
 
I have a hyperdrive IV 16GB SSD it's abit small for vista though I posted my benchmark for it in HDtune in the thread. Have just ordered a second am going to raid 0 them for 32 GB windows disk
 
Darth Revan said:
I have a hyperdrive IV 16GB SSD it's abit small for vista though I posted my benchmark for it in HDtune in the thread. Have just ordered a second am going to raid 0 them for 32 GB windows disk
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Nice :D take a look at vlite? I have Vista home premium for my media center at 3.9gb
 
There's one SSD out at the moment that does 100Mb read/80Mb write (but not on Intel chipsets, bizarrely).

If you're feeling flush, check out reviews of the Mtron 2.5" SATA SSD Drive.

But the price comes in numbers of kidneys, arms and legs... so don't say I didn't warn you.

Fast as a very fast thing, however. :eek:
 
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