Comments on: Are You Ready to Buy an SSD?

By: Matt Abrams

Matt Abrams — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:26:25 +0000

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…

By: Chanan Oren

Chanan Oren — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:25:04 +0000

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. :)

By: Kyle Ramser

Kyle Ramser — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:27:35 +0000

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.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:22:32 +0000

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.

By: Empyrean

Empyrean — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:28:36 +0000

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.

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:15:07 +0000

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.

By: Alan Monroe

Alan Monroe — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:14:58 +0000

Do they have a finite number of writes before wearing out like past flash memory technology?

By: EthR

EthR — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:21:56 +0000

“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.

By: Mr. Cheeto

Mr. Cheeto — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:00:53 +0000

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.

By: sludgeball

sludgeball — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:30:36 +0000

Don’t forget about limited write cycles… :(

By: sludgeball

sludgeball — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:21:33 +0000

There fast, but costly…

Now imagine them in RAID 0