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| Thread ID: 136312 | 2014-02-16 21:09:00 | SSD drives | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 1367755 | 2014-02-16 21:09:00 | I'm reconsidering my stance on SSD's, and have read all about the pro's of these devices. But I've yet to find much about the negatives. Can others who use one or have learned anything let me know about the cons? I'm considering an Intel DC S3700 800GB. [edit] Oops, I just saw the price of these beasties ($2800.00] so needless to say I'm scrapping the idea of that model! |
Greg (193) | ||
| 1367756 | 2014-02-16 21:22:00 | SSD cons: Price Smaller capacity That's it. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1367757 | 2014-02-16 21:55:00 | I reckon I'll go for this one (www.ascent.co.nz) at $145.00. It only has 128 GB but that'll be enough for my games which is the only reason I'd use it for - everything else will be on my regular drive. | Greg (193) | ||
| 1367758 | 2014-02-16 21:59:00 | Check that your drive interface is supported www.intel.com "The Intel SSD DC S3700 appears to be a very promising new architecture from Intel. If it ends up performing as Intel promised, the S3700 controller could be the beginning of a new era in SSD performance - one focused on consistency of performance, not just absolute performance. As soon as we run samples through our test suite you can expect a full review, putting Intel's claims to the test. Stay tuned." See www.anandtech.com |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 1367759 | 2014-02-16 22:10:00 | SSD cons: Price Smaller capacity that's it.+1 If you want a compromise the Seagate hybrid drives with inbuilt cache SSD have impressed me so far. SSD like boot up times and conventional HDD capacity for a reasonable price with no setup hassles. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1367760 | 2014-02-16 23:26:00 | The WD Black^2 is very impressive as well, unfortunately due to the price it's really only for people who only have one 2.5" drive bay. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1367761 | 2014-02-16 23:35:00 | I've just been reading this page (en.wikipedia.org) which does in fact point out some of the drawbacks and risks associated with SSD's. | Greg (193) | ||
| 1367762 | 2014-02-17 01:16:00 | www.zdnet.com But in a laptop you shouldn't be likely to experience that issue. But it's not really going to matter what you use, if you don't have backups, you are guaranteed of 100% data loss eventually. |
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| 1367763 | 2014-02-17 01:59:00 | many drive raid1 is great as part of a backup strategy | Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1367764 | 2014-02-17 02:03:00 | many drive raid1 is great as part of a backup strategy RAID is useful but it is not a backup. If your machine is stolen, your house burns down, or your PSU blows up and takes out all the drives in your RAID array, you still lost everything, even if you had 10 copies of the data on 10 drives mirrored. RAID with mirroring will only protect against drive failure. Backups protect against everything else. |
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