Re: just curious... solid state hard drives



"Matthew" <Im@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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...

Lots of differences among brands and generations. Extreme Tech just published a
review of new Samsung SSD with a comparison with other brands and Samsung's
earlier version: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2326348,00.asp


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)

New-generation SSDs have faster access and comparable read. Way slower write.


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