Yeah, SLC memory is 2-3 times as expensive as MLC, but we'll probably see a second gen of that too within long forcing the price down and that would certainly fix Dick's concern over longevity (100.000 vs. 10.000 writes). One can take a few manual precautions too though, such as disabling swap and use a non-journaled filesystem. For desktop purposes, I have no issue trusting my Intel X-25M G2 to do the correct wear-leaving. Apparently you'd have to write 20GiB a day, for 5 years for it to even start becoming an issue.
/Casper On 6 Sep., 16:10, Robert Casto <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 Castowww.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
