Most SSD's, certainly the cheap ones in Netbooks, are worthless - basically a pimped up USB stick. The second generation MLC based drives are awesome though, i.e. OCZ's Vertex and Intel's X-25M with reads around 250mb/s. The wear-leveling and TRIM support of these makes the big difference on longevity. Having said that, audio editing which depends on massive amount of sequential read/write is not the typical use case to demonstrate SSD strength.
/Casper On 6 Sep., 14:35, Joey Gibson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Robert Casto <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I highly recommend getting an Asus EEE PC. I bought the newest one and > > haven't had any trouble doing the work I want. Sometimes I have to remember > > this is just a netbook and that it will be slow. > > I have an eeePC 900a that I really like, but my advice would be if you > decide to get an SSD, be sure you know the speeds of the drive! I learned > this the hard way. The SSD the eeePC came with was far too small, so I > replaced it. The drive I bought was pitifully slow, though I didn't know > that at the time. It was so slow that Win7 was all but unusable. About 2 > weeks ago I bought a new SSD that is far faster, and now it works a treat. > For reference, the first SSD had read/write speeds of 40/15 MB per sec. The > new, faster, drive has read/write speeds of 155/100MB per second, and the > difference is night and day. > > Joey > -- > Blog:http://joeygibson.com > Twitter:http://twitter.com/joeygibson > FriendFeed:http://friendfeed.com/joeygibson > Facebook:http://facebooek.com/joeygibson --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
