Solid state tops in 2009

That is all good and well, but at this stage magnetic storage is king. It is much cheaper than solid state and it is light years ahead (pun intended) of optical storage.

What I would like is for 500gb optical media to become mainstream. The 4gb DVD variant is very dated.
 
What about the wear on the SSD drives? Don't you get limited write cycles on them? I heard that Intel etc were working on increasing them but still...
 
I have used CF cards as SSD and if you buy a good brand (like Sandisk) they will last almost forever. If you buy dodgy brands like Adata you can kill them within 5 months if you reboot a lot and defrag excessively.
 
pkid said:
What about the wear on the SSD drives? Don't you get limited write cycles on them? I heard that Intel etc were working on increasing them but still...
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Write cycles are limited, but in practice the number of write cycles is enough for the average usage you'll be needing. i.e. don't expect to get through all of them.
 
You don't defrag SSD, it will wear them off...

MLC based SSD's last 7 years used extensivly, 7 years non-stop.
SLC based SSD's can last 100 years, really, all SSD needs now is faster write speed and capacity, HDD will die.

I've got a Samsung 64GB SSD I got here for R1500, best buy of my life
 
Reality is SSD is slooowwww - with exception of the newer and more expensive Intel.

My Acer Aspire Ones SSD is by far from lightning fast - its the seek time that kills its performance during random access, on sequential access it flies.

But I'm very pleased with it because I know its limitations. At least I do not need to panic when my netbook gets put down too hard while on and the battery life is better.
 
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