SSDs

[Nathan England]

I had an Intel X-25V that I used in a Thinkpad and it was awesome. I had the 
cheap 40GB model and it just blew me away at how fast it was compared to the 
160GB 7200 RPM drive that came in my thinkpad. 

I've upgraded machines now, but I just replaced my brand new Seagate Barracuda 
7200 RPM with a Samsung 840 Pro 128GB and the difference is night and day. 
"Instantaneous response" does not do it justice. I have it dual booted with 
Windows 7 Enterprise and linux. Windows is not as fast as linux is, but both 
are incredibly impressive. I am sold on these 840's.

Nathan


On Tuesday, April 02, 2013 01:39:07 PM Stephen wrote:

I have been running an SSD on my main work system for a year, and hwile they 
are expensive i find them completely worth it for day to day disk access. even 
with something as bloated and overly chatty as windows it has been great. they 
have wear leveling algorithms to make sure you don't kill spots in the drive. 
and they have brought the prices down to a very reasonable level. however do 
your research on models/brand for reliability/quality. there are some good 
consumer drives, but also some very iffy ones. 



On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Nadim Hoque <nadimhoque at gmail.com> wrote:

Technically they are supposed to last just as long as regular hard drives but 
again the problem is that no one really tested in a production environment. 
>From what I hear (I may be wrong) but most people use the ssd essentially as a 
cache space and even in enterprises they do. This is what I suggest you do 
with the SSD so that if the drive does die, you don't lose your important 
data. 



On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com> 
wrote:

I have a question about SSDs.  I've read that they like the USB thumb drives 
can be written to a certain number of times before they fail.  What is the 
expected lifetime of an SSD?  They're terribly expensive if they're only going 
to last 2 or 3 years.

Derek

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