Solid State Hard Drives are Here!

[iTunes]

So breaking it down into laymens terms, how does all this solid stuff make computers better?

[Fishu]

So breaking it down into laymens terms, how does all this solid stuff make computers better?

Completely silent, more resistant to shock damage when in operation, significantly smaller, more reliable due to lack of moving parts, consumes less electricity and produces less heat, light weight, faster...

Cons: Currently alot more expensive compared to conventional harddrives, especially the faster types.

[Motherland]

Sounds awesome. Hopefully the price will drop enough in the next year and a half or so so I can put one in the next computer I build...

[Gaidin]

Check out newegg.com  They have some 128gig SSD for under 500.  Not sure of quality, but they have them.

[Fishu]

Sounds awesome. Hopefully the price will drop enough in the next year and a half or so so I can put one in the next computer I build...

In about a year it may become an excellent choice for the OS drive and some programs. When the price drops to a reasonable level I will buy one and use it for harddrive intensive applications and frequenly accessed files, while the conventional harddrives will be used for storing infrequently accessed data.

Just has to keep in mind that the solid drives can be slower than the conventional drives, so care must be taken to not blindly buy one if you're looking for the benefits in speed.

[soda72]

It would be interesting to see what the results would be with database servers like Progress, mySQL, or SQL server using one of these drives..   

[Mr No Name]

See Rule #10

[4deck]

**cough cough linux cough cough**

[Tac]

They still need to come down in price. A decent sized SSD of 100gb is ridiculously expensive.

[Mr No Name]

I LOVE several different linux distros, but for games, Windows is still the king... And yes, I use Cedega and wine, they work on older games like AH but not newer games.

[Mr No Name]

All I use is a 32mb for OS and games

[gyrene81]

nevermind...thanks tigger for pointing out what should have been blatantly obvious...  ...darn necro bumpers

[Tigger29]

grayeagle, you almost sound like this is the first you have heard about ssd's...    i'm sure that's not the case though.

   reschke...8GB flash drives are under $15...lower end units are under $10...that's still more than $1 per gigabyte. flash memory (which is what flash and ssd drives are made of) has always costed more per gigabyte than standard hardware.

Did you even bother to look at the dates these were originally posted?!

[gyrene81]

Did you even bother to look at the dates these were originally posted?!

  damn...keerist, i did but for some reason it didn't register, just read all the posts and neglected to notice the necro bumper mention...     ... sorry tigger...i'm editing my post to nvm...   

more coffee...more coffee...