Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-21 Thread mike wilson
On 20 May 2010 17:51, John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: I think there may be a communication problem here.  By .. that does this ... I thought you meant the reply command was generating the cross-reference headers (In-Reply-To: and References:), not that your mail interface was always

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-21 Thread Gasha
I'm using Asus EEE 701 (oldest) 4Gb SSD model for more than 2 years. Startup time is impressive - no need to suspend. Just power off and then power on :) It is running Linux. You can drop it with no fear (i did at least 2 times) Writes are not rocket fast (about the same 25-30mb/sec), but seek

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-20 Thread mike wilson
On 19 May 2010 19:57, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: just noticed this buried in the Chicago thread (i use a true threaded mail reader, so if you use reply to post something on a new topic, it will still get threaded with whatever you reply to) hijack My ISP has recently changed its

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-20 Thread John Francis
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 08:57:30AM +0100, mike wilson wrote: On 19 May 2010 19:57, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: just noticed this buried in the Chicago thread (i use a true threaded mail reader, so if you use reply to post something on a new topic, it will still get threaded with

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-20 Thread mike wilson
On 20 May 2010 15:40, John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 08:57:30AM +0100, mike wilson wrote: On 19 May 2010 19:57, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: just noticed this buried in the Chicago thread (i use a true threaded mail reader, so if you use reply to post

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-20 Thread P. J. Alling
If you're using gmail, then you can configure it to work with a a pop client, such as Thunderbird. I'm sure your ISP also offers this option. Once it's set up it's much bette, (though some peoples mails don't seem to thread properly. I had noticed that Gmail has recently upgraded their web

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-20 Thread Tom C
After using it for a day, I got used to it. Not perfect, but not certainly not terrible. On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:15 AM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: If you're using gmail, then you can configure it to work with a a pop client, such as Thunderbird.  I'm sure your ISP also

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-20 Thread P. J. Alling
I suppose, but I run a real e-mail client, so I don't have to get used to it. Only problem is that I really should check the online junk folder more often. I haven't figured out hot to disable it entirely and sometime it catches something important. On 5/20/2010 11:39 AM, Tom C wrote:

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-20 Thread Sandy Harris
On 5/20/10, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: I had noticed that Gmail has recently upgraded their web interface to make it unsuable to anyone used to either the web page metaphor or a real e-mail client. I'm sure someone, somewhere must like it. I'm one. It is definitely far

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-20 Thread Tom C
The simple fact that threads are all compressed under the same header in gmail makes finding and reading e-mails easier, and makes the overall appearanceof the inbox much smaller. I read yesterday that the next version of hotmail will be adopting the same approach. Tom C. On Thu, May 20, 2010

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-20 Thread John Francis
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 03:49:18PM +0100, mike wilson wrote: On 20 May 2010 15:40, John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 08:57:30AM +0100, mike wilson wrote: On 19 May 2010 19:57, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: just noticed this buried in the Chicago thread (i

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-20 Thread John Sessoms
From: P. J. Alling If you're using gmail, then you can configure it to work with a a pop client, such as Thunderbird. I'm sure your ISP also offers this option. Once it's set up it's much bette, (though some peoples mails don't seem to thread properly. Probably mine among them. I

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-19 Thread steve harley
On 2010-05-14 20:53 , William Robb wrote: I'm wondering what the consensus on these new beasties is? I am planning on an upgrade to Win7 and adding some ram, and am wondering if I should get one of these as a C drive as well. I am thinking of one of the 40 or so gb ones, since I don't use my C

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-19 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2010-05-19 14:57, steve harley wrote: i have done some study [on SSDs] If you really want the ultimate in balls-to-the-wall performance, look into the SSDs that have a PCI Express x16 interface rather than a SATA interface. You can't really RAID them, beyond two drives, because you run

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-19 Thread steve harley
On 2010-05-19 14:56 , Doug Franklin wrote: On 2010-05-19 14:57, steve harley wrote: i have done some study [on SSDs] If you really want the ultimate in balls-to-the-wall performance, look into the SSDs that have a PCI Express x16 interface rather than a SATA interface. should have

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-19 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: steve harley Subject: Re: Solid State Hard Drives On 2010-05-14 20:53 , William Robb wrote: I'm wondering what the consensus on these new beasties is? I am planning on an upgrade to Win7 and adding some ram, and am wondering if I should get one

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-15 Thread pdml
they seem to be very expensive compared to nebulous state HDs. I have just ordered a new machine and went through the same questions as you, but decided I couldn't afford them as yet. I believe the read/write speeds are also still relatively low and that there's some way to go before they become

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-15 Thread Rob Studdert
On 15/05/2010, p...@web-options.com p...@web-options.com wrote: they seem to be very expensive compared to nebulous state HDs. I have just ordered a new machine and went through the same questions as you, but decided I couldn't afford them as yet. I believe the read/write speeds are also still

Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-14 Thread William Robb
I'm wondering what the consensus on these new beasties is? I am planning on an upgrade to Win7 and adding some ram, and am wondering if I should get one of these as a C drive as well. I am thinking of one of the 40 or so gb ones, since I don't use my C drive for anything other than OS and

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-14 Thread Sandy Harris
On 5/15/10, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: I am thinking of one of the 40 or so gb ones, since I don't use my C drive for anything other than OS and programs. I have almost exactly that setup, though on a Linux machine. 40 gig SSD for root with swap /var and /home on rotating media.

Re: Solid State Hard Drives

2010-05-14 Thread David Mann
On May 15, 2010, at 2:53 PM, William Robb wrote: I'm wondering what the consensus on these new beasties is? There are good ones and crap ones. I seem to recall that Intel ones are pretty good but someone else is bound to know more than me. I've decided that my next laptop will have an SSD.