Asus EEE 901 PC - SSD VS HDD Hard drive boot off

[tikalal]

The next person to say EEE PC is going to get shot.

[TheNewbpowner123]

Conlusion: ssd's are fast... And expensive! ;D

[gxz100]

not true! my asus 901 SSD is so fuckin slow, friend's 901 with HDD is very fast.

so, this is not possible!

[thearchiveable]

I had a 901 EEE, (with SSD) and it was darn slow.

[SOF006]

@thearchiveable EEE's PCs aren't meant to be "fast". Get a laptop with an SSD drive.

[goldslip]

nice video. it reminds me of those MAC vs PC commercials that ran a few years back. heheh. ^_^

[maiki60fps]

I do not trust SSD technology yet. I have a bad experience when my former USB flash drive damaged my data without any feedback to the system... it pretended the write operations as succesful but the data got lost (damaged files).... so the point is clear: stick with magnetic storage solutions!!!

[vampov]

Tell us the SSD. Just saying SSD isn't helpful there are so many brands and controllers

[pablojamaica1234]

AMAZING!!!

[MarkusNemesis]

2.5 inch drives? I'm sure they cant fit anything beyond 1.8inch..

[tomigal1]

íí píszí  xDDD

[tomelliott9]

will this affect gaming performance?

[JetJL]

@tomelliott9 no it will allow you to boot up your game faster but gaming performance is usually based of your processor, gpu, and ram.

[megamike518]

@JetJL very true, a lot of people haven't come to realize this yet. Load screens will be faster, probably only a couple of seconds, but that's it. If you're building a gaming rig, spend most of your money on a gpu, that's all you really need.

[pye333]

@tomelliott9 greatly.

[tomelliott9]

@pye333 2 people seem to disagree with you :S

[lexousa]

i like the black oneee

[YourTechAdmin]

Lol @ apple logo on lower left corner of HDD! Classic!

[cornholio321]

this is pretty racialist

[thomaumatthes]

its less than 10 seconds you nerds!

[MetalSlugK7V]

15-16 seconds faster dude. It's ideal for netbooks. As long as you're not using graphical intensive stuff which you shouldn't be doing on a netbook. Flash is the way to go. no moveable parts either with a solid state drive.

[skyblue2567]

oh these laptop are for schools i saw these at toys r us for 300 dollars dont buy them they are not even good trust me my school got them

[MattTheSushi]

There netbooks.ALL netbooks are for school.Laptops can do much more,and are more for entertainment purposes.

[ItchyKneeSon]

I own 1 as a travel pc (Blk w/12GB SSD, 2GB RAM). It's not the quickest pc, but serves its purpose. They're netbooks, not desktop replacements. You can type up a report in a jam and email it while enjoying the simplicity and ease of its store-and-carry ability. My 17" Dell (won't buy again...) is clunky and much less convenient to say... bring on a trip, on campus, tote anywhere. Would you take a minibike on a cross-country road trip? Why not? Because that's not its purpose. Word, kid?

[pizzadudemandude]

do those have webcams built in with them

[McTw1st]

@pizzadudemandude yupp

[LauxRO]

now a days, it is not worth it. too expensive to such a little difference. what about fucking 8 or maybe 10 seconds of your life "spent" on waiting your pc do thing? aww, fuck the expensive technology

[Aldaraia666]

I would rather give up speed of a SSD for the roomier hard drive. The speed is nice, but the lack of space and price make it useless for now until they come out with sizes over 200 GBs.

[LauxRO]

that is a hell of a statement, bro. sayd everything. fucking too expensive for gamers and common users, even for enthusiasts if might be a little too expensive. if it lowers at least 50 bucks, i may a couple for my desktop. and just in case, there already are models with 256gb and the newest ones, got 384gb. but their prices rise above the fucking 300US$!

[Ejjman1]

It's not fast enough to be worth $120+...I definately want one for my desktop, but they will only get cheaper.

[statquo112]

you talk too much

[usamaki10]

you're the "racialist" for even going there

[simmexx]

Well, the white pc is better by just being white xD

[test957]

The way I see it, there will be a few little quibbles about what is better for about a year or so, and then SSD will wipe HD off the map for the most part. Most SSD's are already faster, but they are coming out with new ones that will be 4 times as fast as hard drives. They are just super expensive at this point for the 4x ones. But in a year or two... At least reasonable ones exist for now.

[test957]

I fully believe SSD is faster, but even though you said the HD's were bit for bit the same, they wee not. The one on the right was busy waiting for a finishing processes. Which means it was going through something different than the on on the left. Changing AutoEndTasks to 1 in registry would fix that. But yes, I see the startup was much faster on the SSD. And the new SSD's out now, 8 months later, are even faster and larger. I look forward to even better ones. Some are now twice as fast!

[charitakis]

Excellent video Thanks!!!

[jagjagin]

ssd 's maybe fast, but they had high prices, for low capacity, and hdd's last longer than ssd, so i will like to stick to hdd until ssd goes down in price and up in capacity.

[rumplin]

who told you they last longer? I have 4 320GB disk here that don't work or have bad secors... They are not older than 3 years or less...

[jagjagin]

according to samsung and other sources, it has a longer life compared to ssd

[rumplin]

MTBF >2.500.000 hours That should be enough for everyone... so pointless to compare...

[jagjagin]

whatever, take that up with the ppl at samsung

[test957]

You must have read something dated. It's a currently known fact that SSD's have a longer life than hard drives now. And I've been reading for days on this. I've seen it in more than one place that it's true. It also depends on type of mem that is used. As for prices I saw a 64GB for $119 somewhere. And being that some of them are twice as fast as a HD, it's worth it. Put the OS and some games on it, and then leave the big stuff on an extra HD.

[tommyboyfierce]

i know right!!

[tommyboyfierce]

thats not true the ssds last much longer cuz there are no moving parts that can ware down like a hard drive where in time files can get fragmented soo thats why

[test957]

you're right tommy. But not because they don't have moving parts. IT's just has to do with the newer memory they are starting to come out with.

[tommyboyfierce]

ooo i see kool thats really awsome how they are able to these things

[jamalakj]

ssd are good for just using the os and important programs and hhd is for everything in my setup

[IThelper02]

SSD's are better but they wont go upto 1TB+ like a HDD will

[L337F0RC3]

there is a 1TB SSD but i dont thing u wanna spend 2 grand... probably worth more than ur computer

[tommyboyfierce]

i wouldnt do that neither lolz

[MRCAB]

I think someone is at the door LOL

[wwjoshdew]

Quick question. I got my 901 (4+16 SSD) Feb 09 from Amazon. Newer 901's don't have ZIF connectors. You have to buy a PCI-e adapter with a ZIF connector on it. How old are those eee pc 901? jkkmobile is how i know about the pci-e zif adapter.

[MartijnGP]

If you need one of those connectors, you can get them on Dealextreme for just under 4 bucks. Only the very first few Eee 901 batches had ZIF connectors.

[megadeth22885]

that was a well done, unbiased comparison, he removed all variables, ghost copies, otherwise identicle machines.. good work

[Aerofist]

good work ^^

nice ending "i gotta get the door" XD

[Mankster101]

You can get 256gb with the new macbook pro.

[pepeloco65]

for a sweet $900 more..

[christianctt]

can you tell me how much GB have the ssd card and how much money

[neverfearchrisishere]

the ssd was only 32 gig, whilst the traditional was 80 gig. I believe that the equivalent versions have a similar pricetag. The only problem I see with such a small SSD is that its unlikely to be able to fit an install of a 64 bit operating system (64 bit installs tend to take alot more room on the HD than 32bit... though they should also run faster.)

[PDBaer]

32 gigs is more than double the space you need to install Win 7 64 bit. It's double the rec'd space and you can do it on much less.

[neverfearchrisishere]

Windows installations tend to get larger over time. Add onto this service packs, updates, rollbacks, backup partition, and software which insists on being on the same drive as windows (*shudder* there still are a few) and you need a fair amount of space. sure you *could* install it on a small HD, it just wouldn't be a great idea in the long term. This is ofcourse rather a moot point since the price of larger solid state drives is falling rapidly

[WTFNoNamesLeft2]

why would you need a 64 bit OS on a netbook? You going to run more than 4GB in there?

[VideoGuyNC]

Isn't it kind-of pointless to put a 64-bit OS on a netbook that only has a 32-bit processor? The eee 901's intel atom 1.6 is only a 32-bit processor. If you load a 64-bit version of 7, it simply runs in 32-bit mode. I believe they will likely make a version with a 64-bit processor (though I suspect the price will be higher).

[neverfearchrisishere]

this has gone vastely off topic, the original discussion was on running windows 7 64 bit on a 32 gig HD, with a discussion whether or not the HD was big enough.

For what its worth I believe that Asus will switch to 64bit with the introduction of windows 7, since microsoft have implied that 64 bit support will be their priority (and rightly so) - though HD size will be unlikely to be an issue due to the falling prices of larger solid state drives

[vbourdakis]

interesting!

However, my eeepc901 hasn't got an ide whatever adapter for the ribon tape there. AFAIK that was a feature of some preproduction models, care to comment?

[KeatonReckard]

is it really worth the 50 bucks for them to preinstall xp?

[jaws99099]

lol "I gotta get the door" Classic funny

[1dgg9h4dr6ppp8]

15 seconds faster ain't all that wonderful. If prices become equal, clearly the SSD is better, but otherwise, SSD's are a joke.

[chaosmutt]

definately worth it with the extra space, it is a better option for someone like me who uses it for old style gaming on the go

[popitn2nd]

is 32gb ssd the biggest storage card in the market? i need more bigger card storage than that.

[timotje25]

theres 64gb availible

[C9H13NO3Adrenaline]

I agree .. ssd is THE future. i just hope the prices on ssd will decrease significant in the near future... it just has so many advantege. faster boot, lower battery useage, faster write/read speed aso aso.

[sommerioslo]

Interesting experiment, if the models and specs are the same. Which model is it? SSD represent the future!

[icsamerica]

yes, other than the color, the two laptop have are identical specs. They are both EEE 901's. I found it very interesting myself.

[vmmc2]

@icsamerica hello do you know if i can change the ssd to a hard drive. I know ssd is faster but mine is just 8gb and i dont need speed for doing school work.

thanks