On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:48:00AM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote:
> On Wed 24 Jun 2009 at 02:32:24 PDT [email protected] wrote:
> >
> >The lifetime and reliability of SSDs are less-than-or-equal-to the
> >lifetime and reliability of spinning magnetic drives, so don't buy an SSD
> >for that. Whether SSDs use less power is an open question. There's a lot
> >of data going either way. The last comparison I saw suggested spinning
> >drives average less power than their SSD counterparts. In any event, it's
> >not clear-cut yet. SSDs probably do generate less heat (but I've not seen
> >data on that). Of course, the access time on an SSD is order(s) of
> >magnitude less than for a spinning drive, and that's cause enough for
> >lots of people to buy one.
>
> SSD's are/should also be favored in devices that are prone to mechanical
> shocks. E.g., tablet PC's, and handheld devices like cellphones, music
> players or game players.
Interesting details. I was a hardware logic major, not software,
but I got shunted into software and went withthe flow. To all
the comments, pro/con, it looks that my earlier projection was
right. It will indeed be awhile before there are reliable
solid-state devs that can replace the spinning disk. And even
then, cross-backups and even having a tape backup of critical
data is a must.
That said, I still want to buy one of these sub-mini notebooks
this summer.
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