Solid State Hard Drives

[rollo]

Anyone familiar with solid state hard drives ? Expensive is all I know.


charles

[bpape]

Yup. Very expensive and have a limited number of writes from what I understand.  I've been wanting to try one but am waiting for the next gen when prices go down, reliability goes up.

Bryan

[rollo]

 Thanks Bryan. I heard they may sond better than conventional drives. Any opinions ?

charles

[richidoo]

I have heard that too. Similar improvement can supposedly be heard with flash drive, if the USB interface doesn't screw it up. Would be a fun nervosa aggravating experiment.

[bpape]

I dunno about them sounding better.  The only reason I could come up with would be lack of motor noise and magnetic field interaction with the rest of the machine.  Everything is buffered so any sort of timing issues are non-existent in either case.

Bryan

[Carlman]

I would think they'd be the first choice for building a silent PC.  However, if I had a silent PC, it'd only be running the operating system and accessing files from a server.  I've compared music served vs. on-the-pc's hard drive and there was no difference.  Not saying there couldn't be.  But there wasn't in extensive and laborious back and forth listening.  I think you are indeed listening to a buffer from memory, which is a sort-of solid state hard drive anyway.

-C

[richidoo]

Everything you ever wanted to know about SSDs (and a lot more:)
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531

[rollo]

Everything you ever wanted to know about SSDs (and a lot more:)
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531

Good post thanks Rich.



charles

[westcoastman]

New on recently released,
http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/04/08/fast.corsair.ssd.coming/

Hopefully they will keep getting faster and cheaper