Solid State Disk vs Hard Disk

Source: Gizmodo

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Science & Technology

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• SSD
• Solid
• State
• Disk
• Hard

[skimyy]

Until they make SSD more marketable, HDD's will still be dominant.

One day we will think of HDD's the same as a VHS. Someday.

[SebasRabet]

@gatewaydx007

Look every smart person with some money who believes in SSD buys a 40-60-120GB SSD for games, windows, programs u use alot for 150-300€ and buys a western caviar (something ) HDD of 1 TB for pics,music,movies,...

Then you have EPIC speed without the cost of 1000's of euros/dollars

And you don't just save 10 seconds.. You save hours

[KingMacintosh]

@KlLLAH573 True for performance, but Seagate only does this in a 2.5" form factor and only released their second 750GB model just weeks ago. Until it comes to that in terms of HDDs, regular HDDs RAIDED is a cheap (more when Thailand flood prices go down), affordable solution to people like me that can only dish a couple hundred MAX for good performance, good capacity reliability (fault tolerance)

[KlLLAH573]

@KingMacintosh True. However, I wasn't endorsing the use of only SSDs. As SebasRabet said, the current best solution is a combination of both a SSD and a HDD.

[KingMacintosh]

@KlLLAH573 Last time I checked, SSDs cannot take a fraction of the write operations without going out of warranty or wearing out than a normal HDD can take. I write 10x more than I read off my main HDD. Also, raiding 7200K drives is a fucking arm and leg cheaper than raiding the 2 SSDS on the market that can actually RAID, I mean please.

[KlLLAH573]

@KingMacintosh Last time I checked, enterprise-class 15000 RPM drives had about the same price/storage ratio as SSDs.

Even with RAID/JBOD, read operations on any sort of hard drive storage will never truly be random access.

[KlLLAH573]

@furfagns Too slow.

[furfagns]

just buy 1 tb SATA3 :D

[IXI69IXI]

people seem to realize that your supposed to store all your data on a SSD... you don't. you put the OS and maybe some games/apps on it, and store the rest of the data on a hard drive. you may say "oh well its only a few seconds in the boot time of the OS / apps", the seconds add up.

[flawns]

I think I can live with my HDD .... I'll suffer those extra 10 seconds

untill a 500gb solid state is NO MORE than $200, I will buy

(i have a 500gb hd, and I have YET to fill it up)

[KingMacintosh]

@skimyy I agree, but the cost of HDDs make SSDs a complete and utter laughing matter. I mean you can single disk, JBOD, RAID for 10-25% of the price. Even enterprise drives are cheaper, screw SSDs until they're developed and comparable to HDD!

[viralfunnies]

@gatewaydx007 why ten seconds? only needed 1