Insightful Technical Article on SSD's

[kayvee]

From magnetic to solid state, spin-free: What a long, strange storage trip it’s turning out to be.

To seriously compete with hard-drive makers, semiconductor vendors must amass a robust, sustained supply of silicon for solid-state drives. They also must address plenty of misconceptions about the newer technology's capabilities and limitations.

Source: EDN Article

 

[PeterCH]

From magnetic to solid state, spin-free: What a long, strange storage trip it’s turning out to be.



Source: EDN Article

Not misconceptions. Random reads and writes on non-Intel SSDs suck.

 

[Chevron]

Not misconceptions. Random reads and writes on non-Intel SSDs suck.

Says who? It's only really the ssds with jmicron suck outright. There are a couple slow samsung ones as well. If you get one with an indilinx controller you won't be disappointed.