Solid State Hard Drives

[UnknownXV]

60 GB SSD OCZ Solid 3 SATA III drive. 500 MBps/ read speeds, 450 MBps / write speeds.

Shit boots Windows 7 in 3 seconds. Cold boot.

[DarknessKingCoH]

I swear i heard Solid Snake Harddrives.

[daro2096]

Still talking the best part of £400 for a reasonable sized SSD. When are they going to become affordable?

[volure1]

I want a combination of power and low energy consumption cpu i know their a duo core intel atom i want a quad core intel atom though. Am not even sure it exist a help me out a bit more option on low consumption cpu will be nice.

[volure1]

i want to ask is their a intel atom quad core i want power computer and saving energy low power consumption. I know mainly it intel atom that have energy star low power i need to save money of my energy bill.

[crazzydude14]

@volure1 intel atom wouldnt be worth it. intel atom processors are some of the cheapest processors ever made, and no matter how much ram you have or whatkind of hard drive, the processor would simply kill the speed.

[volure1]

SSD are cheap to produce so most of the ssd are good for basic work, homework or whatever you use it for. They can make computer cheaper at least with ssd don't expect holding lot of gaming on it most ssd are around 4 gb to 40 gb ssd.

[volure1]

most ssd have it in netbook it reliable drop it will have no effect. SSD are normally on umpc laptop umpc i define it as a low end laptop that mostly have window ce or linux. They have a lower end processor mainly arm7,arm9 or cortex. netbook also have ssd they tend to have a intel atom mainly. only thing is the highly ssd i saw is about maybe 128 ssd it quite a lot. some are low as 1 gb hard drive. depending on what you need maybe your a college student netbook will be fine for you decent speed

[volure1]

soild state drive are shock resistence you can shack it it will not break. Though basiclly they have low memry about 128 ssd to low as 1 gb.

[0987654321284]

macbook air runs on flash memory

[sdhdgasd]

5:07  IT'S HERE!

[FutuzorMekkla]

Yeah, I saw videos of Windows 7 booting with SSD drives and the boot time was really AWESOME!!! I hope SSD manufacturers lowers price at the price per GB.

[AntDX316]

all is needed is its Faster lighter but more expensive per GB vs a non SSD HD

thats all u need to know cause knowing about how it works is unnecessary if u dont plan on manipulating internal hardware

it uses Cells and chips to store data instead of writing to a disc

[JayKay3000]

oh and having this simple speed up means that it's now more enticing to make your pc the main tool for tv, web search, viedeo, audio, etc, etc etc as you can have a tv card in it, good audio and with it being more of a turn on type of thing it's now a bit more plausable to think you could do everything with your pc. Plus companies such as the BBC are making all their tv available on the web. (i know. Tv licence). Plus the quieter pcs become the more plausable this could be.

[JayKay3000]

I think eventually it will all be solid state assuming they can get big capacities without any major problems, but the small flash drives have jumped in space and price in well the last few years. Those come in sizes that used to be only hard drive space.

and the startup speed is good in every way. gaming, wanting to watch a film. Incentive for actually turning off the pc because you know it wont take 10 minutes to load and then search that one thing on the internet.

[hahhahhahhahhahh]

SSD FTW

[pisanghangus]

idiot pirilo

[rail3945]

w/e tuff guy

[saintlavin]

buliten

[Metriod29]

ssd drives fry easily and they can only load small files :S

[Decenium]

Where did you get that info hmmm?

[vascularcylinder]

This is supposed to be humorous, correct?

[rajeshkota]

samsung is coming with 256GB hard drive by this year end. watch out.

[UnknownXV]

For half a grand no doubt. xD

But it's worth the cost.

[diond408]

64GB is good as for mac 16GB SUx

[pdegameplayer]

ive heard of holographic storage, and solid state. i think SuperTalent has the leading edge on solid state media. and as for small Linux desktop distros try Phlack (Professional hacker Linux assault kit)i have it installed on a 1 gig micro-center jump drive and its awesome!

[SNZeroProductions]

There are also linux distros such as Slax and Puppy that will install to USB flash drives. They write temporary files to ram to reduce writes to disk. I have a usb drive with puppy on preconfigured on a 512 scandisk usb drive, and it boots in less than 30 seconds.

[MexicanSnakex]

Thanx for the info.

[Singularity121]

Slo-ped south american idiot.

Like his mom to hit him in the bag, thats where he got that fat ass fag boy nickname.

[idslite]

Did the little baby get his feelings hurt? Fuck you and stfu.

[jugglerkieran]

just to back up chris's point about sthd's. i have a memory stick and i have dropped it down the stairs 20 times(by accedent) shut it in a car door(by acciedent),trod on it( by accident) and the the thing still works fine

[elijahsolly]

Sony has 32GB SSD and Toshiba has a 64GB SSD

Both in notebooks

[PCguy101]

Dell is now shipping laptops with solid state drives. capacities range from 16GB to 32GBs

[AJenbo]

Harddrives are the least evolved pice of a computer.

[Zarion76121]

wrong, there really evolved, there just the bottleneck of the computer.

[bradmacaroon]

Hi; Thanks for the tips about SS media.

I bought a 2 gig flash drive to run the OS only; other files, I store on a flash stick. Why is it that the 2 gig CF2 will not boot but the CF 1 gig drive will boot? They are identical, filewise. Also, I have used these cards to image my Win98 OS but I'd like to do the same to my WinXP HDIs it possible to image XP, even if it requires registration from MS (as mine does)? TIA

[AJenbo]

XP takes over the usb function so you have to have an altered version if you want to boot it of an usb drive. Probably look for BartPE or a usb boot filter.

Yes you can make an image of your XP even though it has to registre with in 30 dayes of first boot.

[bradmacaroon]

Thanks Ajenbo -the problem is that the pc won't boot from the image on the 2G (ultra) Compact Flash , but will from the 1 GCF (non-ultra). I thought maybe it was an artifact of the higher speed. Any suggestions? My goal is to just reload the OS from the CF card, rather than use AV software, that doesn't work. Thanks

[AJenbo]

You used the same image on both? Make shure you have also formatted the two cards with the same system and that there aren't any hidden system files on one and not the othere, if that dosn't work I'm not shure what could be the issue, does your bios list it when you boot up (some will also list it under boot devices in the settings).

[darkally]

Portable Firefox and Opera work really well from a ssd media!

[dabean87]

I think you missed one of the biggest advantages with solid state, POWER and HEAT, solid state only uses 1/5th of power than a typical laptop hard drive.

[Entity001]

I was just reading about SSD's (solid state disk) a few days ago, since I'm planning a trip to Iceland and wanted a good RELIABLE safe backup disk for my photos. SSD came to mind, 64GB capacity should be enough, but the price kinda put me off. $500+ for 64GB, well... not today. Opted for double DVD-R backup instead. But can't wait for the prices to come down (even if I've read, they will never come even close to regular HDDs price). It's the future.. at least one parallel of it :)

[RickyTomatoes]

Yep, it's the future indeed.

[BillyStilskin]

Boot off a flash drive? How big is yours?

[AJenbo]

You can easily find 8GB and probably 16GB as well.

[bradmacaroon]

Any suggestions for setting up a traffic monitor? I'd like to use an old pc as a sniffer on my home system as a firewall; setting it up, I don't understand. Currently I use DSL and an old hub. Thanks for suggestions.

[AJenbo]

You will need two net cards in the pc and put it immediately after the ingoing internet connection and befor the hub (one net card for each), next you need to install some software on the system that will act as a firewall, i'm not shure but i think the Linux LEAF might be one that you can use, if not then do some searching, posibly ask around IRC channels.

[DMXell]

I wish I could afford one =/ I may partition a flashdrive and just boot Windows off it to supplement.

[MattLoaf92]

@DMXell 3 YEARS LATER!

[taluzoid]

@DMXell good luch with that :/

[cphellp]

i dont know why people spammers are posting on here .... ass holes

[Nikiaf]

seriously. youtube is turning into a spammer's paradise

[DMXell]

Yeah, all those "first comment" posts are just so freaking annoying. I wonder why people feel the need to do them.