On 8 Jan 2009, at 15:25, Mark Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Jared Earle <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There are compelling arguments for running 5400rpm drives instead of >> 7200rpm drives in portable machines. SSD makes even more sense. > > I am in my practical naivety inclined to agree, but I'm not sure > whether real world testing bears this out > > - heat from 7200rpm - is it really a problem ? > - reliability of SSD - is it really better over the lifetime of a > laptop ? > - speed of SSD (excepting large sequential writes) - is it really > better ?
I had a dell m4300 with an SSD in my last job. It was awful under any kind of IO contention (e.g. an AV scan + anything else). Of course the dell one may be particularly crap but it has put me off for a while... Michael _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
