Solid State drives

rtatts · 28 Sep 2007 at 16:04

Hey
Can anybody explain to me the advantages in speed wise by going with the solid state drives instead of going for fast speed HDD such as the WD raptors?
Thanks

balls · 28 Sep 2007 at 17:37

Although I'm not an expert, the solid state drives have next to no seak times, no spin up times, are silent, lower heat production/lower power consumption. They generally have lower average read/write speeds though

rtatts · 28 Sep 2007 at 17:40

ok cheers i was just wundering if any body had any statistics or anything like that to compare them

rtatts · 28 Sep 2007 at 17:46

Greenlizard0 · 28 Sep 2007 at 18:03

If you go into the "show us your hard drive scores" thread somebody ran I think either HD Tune or HD Tach on one of those drives.

rtatts · 28 Sep 2007 at 23:34

Thanks

Cyber-Mav · 29 Sep 2007 at 20:07

ideal drives for a lappy. im interested in one if they drop in price.

eXor · 30 Sep 2007 at 14:00

Interested in these as well. 4 GB USB Flash Drive or 16 GB 2.5" Solid State Hard Drive

How much write punishment can USB flash drives withstand nowadays?

Dureth · 30 Sep 2007 at 19:09

Tons, although a solid state drive has far better load balancing algorithms than a USB drive. Estimates on solid state drives put their lifespans at far greater than what you will ever use before upgrading, in the region of 10 years +. I've had a 64MB USB drive that has been used day in and day out for the last 3-4 years and its still working fine.

Jokester · 30 Sep 2007 at 19:11

Can't remember the figure but SS drives have something like 100million writes before failure on average, whilst up until recently flash drives were 100,000 writes or so.

Jokester

akakjs · 30 Sep 2007 at 19:46

SSD are useful depending on task. For bandwidth intensive applications (video editing etc) RAID is a must (e.g. Jokester's setup). My Samsung 16Gb can read at about 50mb/s write at about 24mb/s, and there is no difference in speed between "burst" and "sequential" times...

akakjs

Tesla · 2 Oct 2007 at 00:16

It's good to see that SSD technology is heading in the right direction.

100million writes, what's that sort of life in the real world. How long untill the average office PC reaches that figure.

I think SSD will be the next major leap in PC hardware. It has to be. Regular HDD will be around for a long long time though due to price. They are so cheap now.