I bought one of the OCZ Vertex drives for a server I have and I agree, it is very fast. I've toyed with the idea of putting one in my Asus EEE 1000HA but then I saw the Intel Extreme. They cost almost as much as the Asus itself but the specs are just plain incredible. Once the prices come down some more, everyone is going to want one of these.
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
