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SanDisk launches solid-state drives
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LazyLion
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ok, I'll take four of the 16 Gb ones for my birthday! 
vodacom3g
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Would it make sense to move your swap to a SSD?
You'd think so if Vista's using flash drives for Readyboost. How much are these drives though? Might just be cheaper to get more RAM.
These drives are pretty damn expensive at the moment. A 16GB 2.5" (notebook) SSD costs R5000 and a 3.5" 16GB also costs R5000.
The mentioned SSD in the article mentions read and write speeds of 37 and 17, respectively, which are only marginally faster than a readyboost drive, which does 32 and 15, respectively. Really not worth the extra R4000. A 3.5" SSD is a lot faster though. Cannot remember the exact specifications but is around 15% faster (read and write) than a decent SATA300 3.5" drive but the actual performance comes in at the latency, which since there are no moving parts (such as with a regular flash drive), is around 0.2ms- a 3.5" 7200RPM has an average latency of 8.9ms- 45x slower access speed than an SSD.
Not a chance. Just get more RAM... (4GB is more than enough)
HavocXphere
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I doubt it. Remember ram loses its data without juice. Completely different tech.
Yes it would help...not sure how much though. I don't have an SSD.
Moving the OS to an SSD would help too. Even with tons of RAM + Vista superfetch it still uses the swap.vodacom3g
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I doubt it. Remember ram loses its data without juice. Completely different tech.
Yes it would help...not sure how much though. I don't have an SSD.
I saw that as well. Even with 4GB in my system, it still wants to swap.
I know but it wouldn't matter if you lost your swap file would it?
saffakanera
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lol @ 16 gig drives, back to square one ehy 
Ou grote
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OS X will be supporting 16TB of ram soon.
Will be interesting to see what Apple use it for.
Will be interesting to see what Apple use it for.
AirWolf
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redarrow
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Isn't this rather old news? 
I thought these SSD drives were released ages ago..
I thought these SSD drives were released ages ago..
AirWolf
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Isn't this rather old news?
I thought these SSD drives were released ages ago..
Yes, but not by Sandisk
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redarrow
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Oh.. oh yeah..Yes, but not by Sandisk
So.. in that case, what makes the Sandisk SSD's so worthy of note?
Having a quick look on Sybaritic I see that they already have listed up to a 256GB SSD drive of another brand. (if you've got R80000.00 + to spend
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AirWolf
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Oh.. oh yeah..
So.. in that case, what makes the Sandisk SSD's so worthy of note?
Having a quick look on Sybaritic I see that they already have listed up to a 256GB SSD drive of another brand. (if you've got R80000.00 + to spend
Yeah they are still dam expensive and will remain so until more manufacturers start making much more of them.
Isn't this rather old news?
I thought these SSD drives were released ages ago..
the same though occurred here. but a small solid state hdd for file swapps and temp files would speed things up very nicely