Are You Ready to Buy an SSD?
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What’s the bottleneck in your primary machine? For most people, it’s actually the speed of their hard drive. SSD is coming into its own, and can definitely clean up this problem for you. I received a review unit recently, and you can consider me a convert! Samsung sent the unit to me, and I have been flabbergasted at the results.
I’m going to be using this as my primary drive. My old drive was no slouch, but I could definitely feel the crunch when it was working. That’s less of a worry with SSD – there are no moving components. It’s insanely fast, I’m telling you. You’ll be amazed at the difference you’ll see!
I could put this into a notebook, but I’m not going to. I’m putting it into my Mac Pro. I’m going to keep the other hard drives that I had, and copy over files as I need them. Once I have everything off the old drives, I’ll format them and be done with them. I’ll have a pretty happy system, and I’m very much looking forward to installing it! My computer is going to be stupid fast!!!
Do you even know how fast your hard drive is spinning, and what your transfer rates are? I can guarantee that it probably doesn’t come close to what this SSD can do! This is a dream come true, and cutting edge.
If you want massive performance boosts, you need to take a look at one of these, for sure.
- 64GB Predator GT 2.5″ SATA-II 3Gbps SSD w/ flex-fit 3.5″ bracket
- 6-cell 4400mAh 11.10V Li-ion, Hi-quality Replacement for SAMSUNG NP-Q1, NP-Q1-M000, NP-Q1SSD, SAMSUNG Q1 Series Laptop Battery, Compatible Part Numbers: AA-PB0UC3B, AA-PL0UC3B/E, AA-PL0UC6B, AA-PL0UC6B/E
- Samsung MMCRE64G5MPP – Solid state drive – 64 GB – internal – 2.5″ – SATA-300
- Samsung HMX-H104 HD SSD Flash Memory Camcorder with 16 GB Memory and 10x Optical Zoom
- Samsung SMX-K45 Up-scaling HDMI Camcorder with 32 GB SSD Flash Drive with 52x Optical Zoom (Black)
- Samsung SMX-K45 Up-scaling HDMI Camcorder with 32 GB SSD Flash Drive with 52x Optical Zoom (Silver)
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11 Comments
sludgeball
April 24th, 2009
at 8:21pm
There fast, but costly…
Now imagine them in RAID 0
sludgeball
April 24th, 2009
at 8:30pm
Don’t forget about limited write cycles… :(
Mr. Cheeto
April 24th, 2009
at 9:00pm
SSD’s are still volatile, they have a battery within them that sustains the information. Leave that uncharged for a certain time and *boop* gone.
EthR
April 24th, 2009
at 9:21pm
“I could put this into a notebook, but I’m not going to. I’m putting it into my Macbook Pro.”
Um…a small edit needed here. I’m putting it into my Mac Pro.
Alan Monroe
April 25th, 2009
at 7:14am
Do they have a finite number of writes before wearing out like past flash memory technology?
Justin
April 25th, 2009
at 9:15pm
SSD’s have notoriously poor transfer rates and usually excel only in data access times and considering the severe cost for such lazily small storage capacities I don’t think I will become a convert soon. Seriously if they can squeeze 16GB into an SD card why cant they squeeze more than 128GB into a MUCH larger 2.5 inch disk.
Empyrean
April 26th, 2009
at 5:28pm
SSDs still suffer from wear and tear but the technology has advanced to where for the normal user willl take many years to render it unusable.
Robert
April 26th, 2009
at 9:22pm
Chris,
FLASH is prone to failure and is limited by charge storage. FLASH fails after !100,000 cycles and the more important aspect is that it is based on charge storage. Charge storage is not acceptible for high density because it interrupts itself.
Kyle Ramser
April 28th, 2009
at 3:27am
Yes they have a limited number of write cycles; the controller tries to mitigate that by re-mapping. They are OK for data, who accesses their Word doc a million times? But Windows accesses the SSD a million times in a few seconds, but no one mentions the resulting short lifetime.
Chanan Oren
April 28th, 2009
at 1:25pm
Yes, they have a finite number of write cycles, but as is explained under the “the Flash SSD Application from Hell* – the Rogue Data Recorder” (about half way down the page) at http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html it most likely wouldn’t be much of an issue with the write cycles on current technology. :)
Matt Abrams
May 3rd, 2009
at 12:26pm
Be aware of system lock-ups / freezes that can occur. SSD’s are still in the early adopter life-cycle and I’m sending the Intel drive back as the freezes have made the system unusable…