Re: just curious... solid state hard drives

Matthew wrote:
other than cost/GB are there any other problems that I should be aware of with these new drives? I see that there are a lot of smaller memory companies that are now turning these out in addition to the major manufacturers with slightly lower costs like with flash memory...

Also... how do they stack up in performance compaired to say a WD 10k Raptor drive? (I'm about to google this, but thought I'd ask in here as well)


1) High cost
2) Good read performance, bad write performance (anywhere from 3 to
100 writes per second, without a caching driver of some sort).
3) MLC versus SLC. MLC offers better density than SLC, but has
poorer write cycle limitations (wearout). SLC might also be faster
to complete a write. Many "cheap" products may use MLC, with
complaints from users about them. Wear leveling algorithms are
what makes these things even begin to be viable.

http://mtron.easyco.com/news/papers/07-12-01_mtron-benchmarks.pdf

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=3167&p=2

Check the reviews on Newegg, to spot the garbage.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16820208317

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16820609302

Paul
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