Well fwiw, I got a 80GB Intel G2 SSD as a replacement for my laptop HD early last year (it cost me $220 at the time, which is *still* about what it costs!)...and with Windows 7 64-bit Instant Search and Office 2010 64-bit it's literally changed my life (well, at least how I compute and use my laptop and work).
What I mean is, I have 30GB of email in psts going back to 2000 when I joined my current company, and I have all these useful emails archived but I was never able to access them b/c it took too long to search the psts. Well now, I can get results from ALL 30GB of those psts in ~5 seconds with Instant Search in Win7/Office 2010 64-bit and my SSD. At first I thought it was *all* due to my SSD but then I disabled Instant Search b/c it was taking a lot of the space on the SSD (like 4-6GB when I checked with WinDirStat from http://windirstat.info/ ) but that made searches pretty much break (and of course slow them down too though it was still faster than it used to be when I compared) so I cleared off some space and re-enabled it and damn is it great!! Also (and I know this is definitely all the SSD) I can shut down in under 5 seconds and boot up in about 15 secs or so! Things are just blazing fast, and it was easily worth the ~$200 I spent on it-hell, it would've been worth $500 to get the 160GB at the time b/c it's literally the single best and most paradigm-shifting computer upgrade I've ever made! And as far as lifetimes go, I expect that this might last me another year or so before I decide to upgrade it for the generation coming out, or the generation to come out next year so I'm not concerned about even a 3 year lifetime on it (for example, I've got my Windows page file on the SSD hehe)-and normally I don't like to buy stuff that doesn't last that long, but in this case the performance improvements are TOO good-it's saved me so much time and frustration and reduced stress in my life, and just made it overall so much better so I *highly* recommend everyone pony up the cash and get one!! JM2C though. ;) BINO > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 12:03:05 -0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] SSD tech > > 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.
