Freshy-ZN
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Yeah, you will see i was involved in those threads and I still eagerly await the day I can throw my platters out the window.
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calvincoetzee
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The problem with any flash device is that, flash memory has a limited number of write cycles.
On the Intel site you will see, 20GB per day for 5 years and that HD is shot.
Correct me if I'm wrong I'm just recalling from the article I read a while back.
Now this may be fine for the average user, but what if you put it through heavy usage?
20GB may sound like a lot, but I'm sure it isn't difficult to write 20GB a day to your HD.
Just my 2c, it's got great read and write speeds, and I guess nobody keeps a HD for longer than 3 years anyway.
Here is a link to an article on Notebookrevie.com they tested a SSD
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4647
On the Intel site you will see, 20GB per day for 5 years and that HD is shot.
Correct me if I'm wrong I'm just recalling from the article I read a while back.
Now this may be fine for the average user, but what if you put it through heavy usage?
20GB may sound like a lot, but I'm sure it isn't difficult to write 20GB a day to your HD.
Just my 2c, it's got great read and write speeds, and I guess nobody keeps a HD for longer than 3 years anyway.
Here is a link to an article on Notebookrevie.com they tested a SSD
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4647
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burntproduce
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Well until very recently my dad was using a computer with a 4Gb HDD - yeah he's a dinosaur and so was his computer. But never the less, at least an affordable SSD has more storage than some people 
vodacom3g
Vodacom Representative
I'm just wondering what the hell you guys are storing to have the need for so much space?
Guess having 50mbit uncapped cable to my place doesn't give me the need to horde anything
Bragging about 50Mb/s uncapped in SA will probably get you lynched....
I keep all my movies (and music, pics, etc.) on the media server. 7TB, RAIDed gives about 5.5TB of usable space and this fill up quickly with movies in MPEG2 format (no matter what you say, compressing them drop the quality badly) and nowadays it can be 9 to 20GB per movie.
My system is specifically designed for kids from about 18 months old, so it's all touch screen based with icons that depict the movies. Push the button and the movie plays. So it has to be stored local.
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I'm a sucker for keeping old files on-hand for pc repairs especially older ones, but that doesnt take that much. Massive Mp3 + DIVX collection, plus, Photoshop PSD projects can get quite hectic!
<moLe>
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hmm...nah my computer runs on its 500gb and then have 2tb on my home/media server, but I cycle through movies/series quite often not into building the biggest collection. Watch once, maybe twice and then I delete it. Most of my space is taken up by svg's (scalable vector grapic) from my playing around with Maya and 3D Studio Max
Nerfherder
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Where can I get that.... I'm looking for a drive and an IDE interface for a laptop.
I recon that we're going to see a lot of laptop drives change to SSD even if low capacities. Most people who want to store a lot of data have external drives (or internal if using server/desktop) in any case. Those large volume external drives will take a while to change to SSD due to cost, but the system drives will change.
Rouxenator
Dank meme lord
Where did you get yours and how much did it cost ? Is it also a CF card with adaptor ?Well until very recently my dad was using a computer with a 4Gb HDD - yeah he's a dinosaur and so was his computer. But never the less, at least an affordable SSD has more storage than some people
I get the CF cards and adaptors from eBay (hong kong). 4gb card is about R200 and the adaptor is about R30. CF cards are actually IDE and all the adaptor does is make them fit into an IDE connector. You get nice ones that are in the 2.5" format of a laptop drive and have the 44pin interface.
Have look on ebay.
A good overview of how SSD's can be used to make traditional drives faster.
http://www.sun.com/x64/intel/zfs_solution_brief.pdf
http://www.sun.com/x64/intel/zfs_solution_brief.pdf
Hi Rouxenator, were you able to load a OS on the CF card? If so I would like to get some. I have CF to IDE/SATA, but I need special ICF's as the "normal" camera CF cards can not boot a OS.
Rouxenator
Dank meme lord
Hi, yes I have loaded XP (and Ubuntu) onto many CF cards and it works fine. SanDisk CF cards have an ID bit that can be toggled to identify it as a removable type drive regardless of wether it is connected via IDE or USB. You can still load XP onto it but it will fail to make a swap file because XP does not allow for making swap files on removable media.
I have a tool from SanDisk by which you can set this bit. You normally only get it after you sign an NDA with them, but if you are using a SanDisk CF card and you think the removable bit is causing your headache let me know and I'll send you the tool. (small .com file to be run in dos).
Nerfherder
Honorary Master
I think that the point of the IDE interface is that it think that the drive is a normal HDD and will just boot off it.
My Laptop has an option to boot off usb so i'm going to use that first, I don't think that windows will be able to install on to a removable drive so I'm going to image it and then copy the image on to the flash drive.
My Laptop has an option to boot off usb so i'm going to use that first, I don't think that windows will be able to install on to a removable drive so I'm going to image it and then copy the image on to the flash drive.
Thanks man, I'll get some and test, mind sending me the product code for those disks? I use XPE with platformbuilder, then transfer the image using ghost. The ICF cards I use are currently going for about R1.5K so this will be a big help.
Rouxenator
Dank meme lord
I also thought that if it is on IDE it will be seen as a normal hard drive. But it seems the guys at SanDisk had an ace up their sleeve and after 8 hours of cursing and stuffing about in the registery it finally dawned on me that somehow windows is detecting that this drive is removable, and it only happend when I use SanDisk - not when I use dodgy brands like Adata (which I do like actually).
Then it was only a matter of time before I laid hands on the bit setting tool for SanDisk CF cards
Now I have XP running on a 4GB CF card and it is pretty fast.vodacom3g
Vodacom Representative
I found that many CF brands are not reliable enough and will intermittently fail to boot, etc. Using high-grade CF's fixed this.
Roux, your experience?
Rouxenator
Dank meme lord
I buy all my flash memory from stores.ebay.com/flashman852
Sometime I get the card in less than a week. He really knows his stuff. I usually went for the cheap OEM CF cards but recently I switched to the SanDisk Ultra range and there is a small performance increase. Unfortunately small reads and writes are not that great on CF cards, but still, they are usable.
My next buy will be a 16GB 133x Kingston - can't wait to see how that baby performs. But at R450 it is the same price as a 80GB HDD so I am in a bit indecisive.
True, but I found some just not booting at all, Kingston and Transend I could not work with at all. XPE sorts the write back issues and increases the life of your card.