• geekazine

    Ya know – No matter how you spin it, it's still a disk that takes up a lot of space. I am waiting for the day the SSD comes down in price to the point where I can buy 4 and set up a SSD RAID. Then you have 4 drives in the place where you would have one VelociRaptor. Yum.

  • SalCan

    Yeah, but I don't think any of use will be able to afford 300GB of solid state storage any time soon.

  • mel

    I've seen a Velociraptor vs SSD post and I have a few items to add:

    - Velociraptors aren't noisy disks. You can't hear barely hear them, except on the most demanding seek operations.
    - SSD can also have electronic problems.
    - Superfetch mitigates the problem of random reads. So what's the point? It can't do anything about the horrible random writes performance of the SSD
    - SSD prices are coming down, but so are HD's. I can buy a 500GB disk for 75€
    - SSD are wasteful, too small or even slower for ISO files, videos, installation packages, hi res pictures, Temp, Temporary internet files, Pagefile, Hibernation file and so on.



    Most people know the advantages of SSD, I agree that they are better than HD's for a lot of scenarios, but this half-truth SSD bandwagon is pathetic.

    - Power consumption: Don't you have a car? Don't you use a 1000W heater in the winter? Don't you turn on the lights?
    - Where is the proof that consumer grade SSD's will have high quality, reliability, and support a large number of write cycles? Or is this based on claims from manufacturers? I don't want Maxtor style SSD's
    - HD's are known to have high failure rates, but SSD doesn't avoid the most common reasons why you lose important data: filesystem corruption, virus, human error like deleting files, application bugs, memory errors that corrupt system cache.
    - SSD is fantastic for random reads, but poor for writes. If I pay 1000$, I don't want a compromise, if I pay high end, I want high end.
    - SSD owns an HD badly at loading programs. Agree! But have you ever heard of SuperFetch? If you have Vista, a PC with SSD will boot 10 secs faster and that's it.
    - And I don't want to see MTron benchmarks and then pay through the nose for el crappo SSD.