Cost is still a factor, but I think SSDs are becoming almost a must-have for mobile computing. Compared to spinning hard drives, SSDs consume much less power, create much less heat and present a much lower threat of data loss or damage due to the lack of moving parts. For something like a laptop or a tablet, those are all big wins on top of the much faster boot time and performance gains. And the only real loss is being able to store as much data as possible. I'll live with that - I can get by with "only" 128 GB of disk space on my laptop since most of my big stuff (archives and media) is in the cloud (personal or otherwise).
The tradeoff is that in a laptop where you are only likely to have a single storage disk, you need to have enough RAM to do everything you need to without a pagefile. In some cases 4 GB will suffice but 8 GB is probably better (assuming you're running a 64-bit OS). --------- Brian On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Joshua MacCraw <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a stab-in-the-dark here but no device actually overwrites deleted > data. > They simply flag the formerly allocated space as free, a privacy hole in > some cases. > > With flash, wear leveling prevents direct sector reuse thus limiting wear > in > any one area. > > Still I think cost is too high & lifetime to low at the moment to justify > the gains. Cost has prevented me from trying SSD out which is likely a good > thing for I am sure it's faster. >
