24 Solid State Drives Open All of Microsoft Office In .5 Seconds
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#2So, given that demo, does a single SSD perform substantially better enough on a normal laptop to warrant the expenditure yet? (Last I heard, standard advice was to wait until the price drops.)
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#3It's actually quite clever marketing on behalf of Samsung, and impressive to seek them using 'geek marketing' in this way.
However, given that a 64GB Samsung SSD drive goes for about $500, 24 of them (plus RAID card for that many) is still looking quit steep!
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#4Wow. Simply -- wow.
I was amazed at really seeing the HD bottleneck minimized this way. I always knew about it, but -- wow.
Re: 24 Solid State Drives Open All of Microsoft Office In .5 Seconds
#5So, given that demo, does a single SSD perform substantially better enough on a normal laptop to warrant the expenditure yet? (Last I heard, standard advice was to wait until the price drops.)
It depends on your impatience. The X25-M has already dropped about 2X in price to $400.
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#6So, given that demo, does a single SSD perform substantially better enough on a normal laptop to warrant the expenditure yet? (Last I heard, standard advice was to wait until the price drops.)
Only if the drive is based on Intel's MLC or, even better - Samsung's SLC flash.
Regular (cheap) MLC-based SSDs are good only at reading big sequential files and lose out to 7200rpm drives when it comes to many small writes.
I can't find a ling to a guy who blogged about his disappointing experience compiling C/C++ sources on a regular MLC drive, but I googled Linus Torvald's experience with Intel:
http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-i-got-one-of-...
I personally find that I just have all my software open all the time, most of what I need gets pre-cached in 4GB of RAM I have, and I never reboot, i.e. no need to restart anything [unless, of course, freaking Adobe Flash freezes my Mac]
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#7So, given that demo, does a single SSD perform substantially better enough on a normal laptop to warrant the expenditure yet? (Last I heard, standard advice was to wait until the price drops.)
Only if the drive is based on Intel's MLC or, even better - Samsung's SLC flash. Regular (cheap) MLC-based SSDs are good only at reading big sequential files and lose out to 7200rpm drives when it comes to many small writes. I can't find a ling to a guy who blogged about his disappointing experience compiling C/C++ sources on a regular MLC drive, but I googled Linus Torvald's experience with Intel: http://torvalds-fa…
This anandtech review was very helpful to me:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=34...
Gives a lot of detail about the various types of SSDs and why the intel is currently the best bet. Warning, reading it might cause you to go into a "gear lust trance" and spend a lot of money.
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#8And then software will expand to make everything slow again.
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#9And then software will expand to make everything slow again.
Not if you consistently have $25,000 to spend on a computer.
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#10This should work with USB thumbdrives too.
The ones I've tested are faster than a HDD (and faster than the SSD in a eee PC). They're also cheap.
Bottleneck would shift to USB bandwidth (60 MByte/s) and the PC itself.