Humpty Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Quote: 2006 MAY BE the year that will mark the slow start of slaughtering the old electro-magnetic dinosaurs, replaced by a flashy answer. Hard drives will pretty much kick the bucket - it's no long slot - soon. After Samsung launched Q30Plus-SSD with a 32GB solid state drive, it was only the matter of time before the other vendors claimed their share of the pie. Story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphirer Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Solid-sate drives are cool, but hard drives still have superior capacity. I myself never used all that much space, so I would be especially interested in a super-fast drive See what iRAM does to Windows in terms of boot times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Damn, that computer was amazing fast! I wish my computer was fast like that. SSD (Solid-state disks) are cool, but they have small diskspace, limited amount of writes and some operations are slower than on mechanical disks I think. But it will be interesting to see how the progress... And SSD disk is totaly silent, that is what is best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokoike Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 ...and some operations are slower than on mechanical disks I think... Really? I don't see why that would be. I was under the impression that any Flash ROM address could be accessed instantaneously, while of course, hard drives have to spin to the addresses one by one. I guess I'll have to read up on that and figure out which is faster... But yeah, Flash ROM totally rocks! I've heard that a Flash ROM drive only uses around 5% of the power consumed by a hard drive, so just think of how long a notebook battery could last! Pretty sweet. As far as the limited number of writes, I sure hope they can up that number. For now, I would only use a Flash ROM drive as a backup, since backups aren't written to and read from as frequently as an OS or application drive. I will note that I had a 256 MB Flash ROM stick that I filled and emptied daily for over a year, and it never had any troubles whatsoever. So hopefully the short life span issue is more hype than anything. I guess we'll find out soon enough... Save a tree, eat a beaver. Save a tree, wipe with an owl. Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked! ding, ding! Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive. If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphirer Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 Flash drives and ROM sticks are physically tougher than hard drives... no moving parts. I don't know how long it will last, but since I format around once a year, life-span won't make much of a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 There is an Wikipedia article about this; * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_state_disk "The flash memory cells tend to fail after around a million writes which made early devices unsuitable for storage which is often updated in place, such as swap files." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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