Re: [Thinkpad] Solid State Disks SSD

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From: "Andrew" <andrewaa@comcast.net>
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Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Solid State Disks 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?

Glad to hear it; I've missed your SSD 560x reports. Didn't you and Vicki
Lamburn have a spirited debate about the hardiness of SSDs?

Deanna

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Received on Sun Jan 14 19:06:55 2007