SSD Drives
This article is a few months old but I still thought it informative on SSD drives and comparisions and myths to conventional hard drives.
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Solid State Drives for Desktop PCs and Laptops: Ready for Prime Time?
by richi on 07-11-2011 11:15 PM
An SSD is a large flash memory drive, usually packaged as a drop-in replacement for a regular hard drive — in the same form factor and with the same interfaces.
SSDs are fast. Even the slowest SSD gives you far better real-world performance than does the fastest conventional hard drive — 100 times as fast or more. This translates not only into improved user productivity, but also into higher quality work.
More User Productivity, Fewer Errors
Imagine starting Windows in seconds, not minutes. Imagine if unpacking a .ZIP file in the background didn’t bring the rest of your PC to a crawl. Imagine never feeling the need to dropkick your PC for its inexplicable slowness.
You’ll see a vast performance improvement using an SSD in a desktop PC. It’s even more noticeable on a laptop or netbook, which use slower drives than their desktop counterparts.
Research by the University of Maryland and others show that a faster PC means reduced user frustration, which in turn causes users to make fewer mistakes. This has an inevitable effect on productivity.
Complete article and some top myths about SSD drives at the turn...
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Solid State Drives for Desktop PCs and Laptops: Ready for Prime Time?
by richi on 07-11-2011 11:15 PM
An SSD is a large flash memory drive, usually packaged as a drop-in replacement for a regular hard drive — in the same form factor and with the same interfaces.
SSDs are fast. Even the slowest SSD gives you far better real-world performance than does the fastest conventional hard drive — 100 times as fast or more. This translates not only into improved user productivity, but also into higher quality work.
More User Productivity, Fewer Errors
Imagine starting Windows in seconds, not minutes. Imagine if unpacking a .ZIP file in the background didn’t bring the rest of your PC to a crawl. Imagine never feeling the need to dropkick your PC for its inexplicable slowness.
You’ll see a vast performance improvement using an SSD in a desktop PC. It’s even more noticeable on a laptop or netbook, which use slower drives than their desktop counterparts.
Research by the University of Maryland and others show that a faster PC means reduced user frustration, which in turn causes users to make fewer mistakes. This has an inevitable effect on productivity.
Complete article and some top myths about SSD drives at the turn...