Cripes, you had me worried My drive is an Intel drive I went to the suggested web site and about the only comment they made was
- High mechanical reliability, as the lack of moving parts almost eliminates the risk of mechanical failure. Can I go back to sleep again? S On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Sytze de Boer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Is there something I should know about SSD drives? > > > > There's a lot you should know about SSD. The original SSDs were based > on flash RAM and each individual bit has a limited number of write > cycles. The limits gone up. The SSD circuitry is "smart" about > rotating around what areas are used, and smart about reallocating bits > as they go bad. There are good SSDs, better SSDs, and cheap SSDs. > > You might start your search at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssd_drive > > I know with Linux, there are some recommended best practices of > altering default OS behavior so that it doesn't write as often. You > might want to poke around the intertubes to see if there are some > similar documents with recommendations for Windows. > > -- > Ted Roche > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > http://www.tedroche.com > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
