Solid State Drives (SSD) are inevitably what are going to replace our existing hard disk drives. For those not aware of what the difference is between the two, traditional hard drives have moving parts on the inside while SSDs so not. You can consider them "big flash drives".
SSD is above and beyond superior to HDD in every way except space for the time being. The biggest one you can get within a reasonable price point is 128GB for just a tick over 400 USD.
However the single largest problem is that SSDs don’t exactly "agree" with BIOSes from several manufacturers. One of the more popular drives at present is the OCZ Core Series 128GB Sata II, however the customer feedback is less than stellar on this product. Some are reporting slow access times, spotty write methods and a whole host of other bad stuff. But it also should be noted some have had no issues at all.
OCZ has been on the ball with this product (as you’ll see from the link above) and has been responding as best they can to this evolving technology, urging people to discuss the product in their forums whether you think it’s good, bad or indifferent.
For those thinking about SSD, I do recommend reading up on what people have been saying about it. It’s still an expensive tech and is a good read for those thinking about plunking down a few hundred smacks just to be on the bleeding edge, so to speak.
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All new hardware is buggy at first. I’m surprised there have been so few issues with SDD to start with.
Prices are dropping fast and storage is going up fast.
Flash memory has dropped astoundingly in recent years, with the big move to replace HDDs we’ll see even bigger drops in flash memory. Of course, manufacturuers could just use the demand to raise prices and stagnate the market and shoot themselves in the foot like they often do.
I have a OCZ 64 Gig in my desktop for over two months now.
Actually only paid $169 for with a $50 rebate. Now I could have had a 500 Gig for the same price. But decided to go with the SSD for my system boot drive, 64 Gig on the system drive is quite a lot of space, considering I have over 600 Gig in two other drives for games and stuff.
I am very pleased with my purchase and the performace is as good as a mechanical hard drive, I have how ever moved the swap files to the other two drives so that improves the performance.
I read in the Overclockers forum where a guy said it took over two hours to load Vista on a 32 Gig. I used an image from the orginal mechanical hard drive, it takes about the same amount of time to put the image on the SSD as the mechanical hard drive.
I wrote an article about my experacne,it is in the upgrade section of my web site.
Yes i agree.
for my primative test i copied a 1gb file from h/disk over sata to ssd and it took about 30 secs so ok we know ssd is not to fast on write but then i tested the read speed by copying the same 1gb to ramdisk from ssd that is ultra fast as you know and the performace was about 15 seconds so not the 200X i and been lead to beleive on read speeds.
i will be using the drive for sql-db so maybe it will speed it up a little bit and make it worth the money but don’t like me swallow all the sales crap you read on eBay who are the biggest crooks going.