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cincyrob
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_ 		17. August 2009 @ 22:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ive been reading alot about the SSD drives. which one is the best to get? i have only seen a couple different manufactures. and when will they be more readly available to the public? anyone have any info on them? please inform me..
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_ 		18. August 2009 @ 00:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I would say the price and long term reliability of these devices is seriously against them right now. I think they are a seriously dead end technology.. sizes increase but the 10,000,000 read/writes looks iffy to me.. That's not many cycles when you start to think about how much stuff you shift about say authoring dvd's... and across a huge drive.. when these things die they don't just go a few bad sectors at a time.. as soon as you fail one block the whole damn thing seems to go out.. maybe 12 months if you are lucky??

windoze continual pagefile read/write cycles kills ssd drives in notebooks in under 6 months.. I have killed 2 256mb ssd cards in a linux solid state micro pc with swapfile read/writes in the course of 3 years.. and linux is very light on the way it uses it's swapfile. (and 256 cards are virtually free.. but increasingly hard to find.. that's why I use them).. I'm not interested in TB sized drives at $1200+ a shot.. seriously.. you could build and address a ram array of the same size more cheaply and probably access it faster..

I know why the military are interested in them.. for the same reason they like lcd displays.. immunity to physical shock breakage.. for the domestic user they have no advantages at all.
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cincyrob
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_ 		18. August 2009 @ 11:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
well i guess there is allways the other side of the story for everything...lol it does seem to be a waist if after some many read/writes it is trash.... its not that im in any hurry to get one was just curious as to the pros/cons and readyness of these drive.
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_ 		18. August 2009 @ 19:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The only ssd drive to get is the intel x25-m, it's only a 80gb hard drive but it is fast. I'm also doing research on which one to get and all reviews point to the intels. Go to youtube and type in intel x25-m, people have posted videos on there performance. The computer guy chris pirillo uses the samsung ssd (more expensive than the intels) he has a video that tests the ssd's in gaming.
The good ssd's are more expensive, the cheap ssd drives don't have the newer controllers and are slower when reading/writing and skip.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403

Also check tweaktown.com under there storage tab, they do alot of testing on different ssd drives.
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