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At this price, I might be going SSD

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Cakemeister:
The price premium per GB is for the extra speed. $3 per gigabyte for SSD vs. about $0.07 per gigabyte for magnetic drives. But you've got to have some perspective. Just a few years ago (2002) magnetic drives were selling for $3 a gigabyte. So I don't think $3 is too high per gigabyte for SSD.

http://www.alts.net/ns1625/winchest.html

ChadTower:

Extra speed here in a desktop is an illusion... what's the point of taking high performance wheels and dropping them on a Ford Taurus?  You're still working off a consumer motherboard with a narrow bus and probably running Windows.

If throughput is that much of an issue the solution is a machine with a wider bus and a more optimized OS.

HaRuMaN:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on November 02, 2009, 03:40:35 pm ---Surely the power consumption has to be less?  And they'd be impact resistant so ideal for notebooks.

--- End quote ---

We're actually using them at work for data collection machines for flight test since they can take up like 1000 g's.

massive88:

--- Quote from: Cakemeister on November 01, 2009, 09:23:08 pm ---http://www.kingston.com/press/2009/flash/10c.asp

$115 + 10 for 2.5" to 3.5" adaptor.

40 gigabytes.

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Go big or go home, imo.

ahofle:
I've been considering one of these for work as well.  There are a few caveats...you have to pay attention to writes.  Like flash USB drives, there are limits to the amount of writes the memory will take.  That's why the ad says to put 'documents/files/pics/etc' on the conventional drive.  This rules out what I was hoping to get the extra speed out of -- development/programming compilation/builds.  You are also supposed to turn off things like background windows defrag on the SSD drive as that will significantly shorten its life.  This particular drive doesn't have very good speed numbers compared to others (check them out on newegg.com).  Still, I'm very interested in trying one of these for a boot/windows partition and this is by far the best price I've seen.  I may ask Santa for one. :P

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