Re: [Thinkpad] Solid State Disks SSD

>> No kidding. With the Samsung 32GB SSD looking like about a $900
>> item, I'm hoping that other, slower devices will have to meet
>> the market at less than $30 a GB. About $19 / GB would meet my
>> price point of $150 for an 8GB SSD.
>>
> How well do these things stand up to the millions of read/writes that
> would occur if the SSD were used instead of a primary hard drive? I
> thought I read somewhere that they had a limited number of r/w cycles.

I know there is some concern about using a flash drive for the OS since
windows is always writing stuff to the drive for it's own mysterious
purposes but I haven't noticed any degradation in performance with my
Solid State 560X and it's 800 Mb IDE flash disk over the past 4 years.
Granted it is a 266 MHz Pentium running Win98 Lite so it's not like
it's a terribly fast machine to start with.

So far Scandisk finds no errors when I check it.
When I'm ready to re-install it I'll format the drive and compare the
formatted capacity with the capacity before formatting. I figure that
if there's any long term degradation on the card the formatted capacity
will be reduced as the bad blocks are marked bad.

I've got a Lexar 4GB 80X Compact Flash card on order to plug into my
CF-IDE adapter which will go into another 560x.
I'm thinking that the 80X card will help the card keep up with the old
pentium.

Andrew in Ann Arbor
technology is the answer, what was the question?

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Received on Sun Jan 14 13:28:48 2007