Interesting read on SSDs

Started 2 years ago by Nate

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Nate

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My personal computer has a single SSD and boots to usefulness in about 20 seconds. I have 4 more at work but have not been able, yet, to test the disk speed.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html

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ChadMan

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I'm a firm believer in not buying into new tech or the latest and greatest for that reason.

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Pierre

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I'm not that pressed for performance that I'd afford a drive that's more expensive per GB than HDDs were 10 years ago. And given the technology's kinks, an SSD's current MTBF should be around 2 years – the more you use it for writing, the faster it'll fail. SLC-type SSDs have a longer life expectancy (as well as even better performance), but they typically cost 3 to 4 times as much as the more common MLC-types (see http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ssd-value-performance,review-1455-5.html for a comparison).

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