Solid State HDs - worth the cost?

[Michael Lauzon]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 19:01, Jamon Camisso <jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Intel certainly is at the top of the pile for SSDs. That said, I have a 60GB
> drive with an Indilinx controller (that's important in the
> non-Intel/consumer range) for my boot and root partitions and I'll never go
> back to SATA.
>
> I still store data like music and movies etc. on an internal sata raid1
> array, but read and seek times aren't an issue there so much.
>
> Interestingly, costs for good performing SSDs seem to all be consistently in
> the $3-4/GB range for sizes over 32GB. That must be related to the actual
> cost of the flash memory chips themselves.
>
> In terms of desktop use, I think and SSD does make the most substantial
> perceived performance improvement above and beyond any other upgrade.
> There's no sitting around waiting for a program to load or nearly as long
> for a machine to boot. I do agree that more memory never hurts too.
>
> My $0.02
>
> Jamon

SSDs still use the SATA interface.


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Michael Lauzon
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