Solid State Drives - Fast, Rugged, and Expensive

Nick Breen writes "Are solid state drives becoming a reality? Loyd Case over at ExtremeTech has written an article concerning the current state of SSD with a comparison between a Samsung 64GB SATA and a Super Talent 32GB SATA. While they showed impressive speed rates when placed against a hard disk drive, the occasional sporadic statistic (and high cost) indicate they're not quite ready for the mainstream. Dell and Alienware have been shipping laptops with SSDs for months now, and Apple may be rolling out one of their own next year. Is the time of the solid-state drive almost at hand? Does anyone have any first-hand, practical experience with SSD?"

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judai$m

[alfs boner]

I like to write it as 'i$rael' instead of 'israel'

lol

"The United Jew$ of I$rael" lol lol

Also I say 'neoconservative'(neocon$ervative lol) whenever I want to complain about the hook-no$ed ba$tards in more polite company. They just think im another liberal and have no idea im specifically talking about jew$

lol i$rael lolol ^_^

Amerikkka!!1~

My voxclock2 is going great - solid state!

[Anonymous Coward]

I have a voxclock2 talking clock from the early 80's and it works great... really loud too and I only have to change the batteries once every few years.

Mods, Bad Mods, and Current Moderators

[fm6]

I'm going to change my sig to refer to this post. Nothing against you: your post is quite funny. But the two people who modded you up labeled your post "insightful" and "informative" rather than "funny". Possibly they don't get the joke (wouldn't surprise me) but more likely they felt the need to reward you with karma points, which you don't get with "funny". That's doubly stupid: not only does it misuse moderator points, but you obviously don't need the karma anyway.

Put applications on the drives themselves?

[HornWumpus]

You've convinced me. Linux is a bad thing. So is open source.

Devices should be black boxen (boxes now).

Nobody should consider doing such awful hacks. If Linux encourages such thinking it must be destroyed. Can you imagine trying to support such a thing once the original implementor is gone?

If that means we give up all freedom to MS and Sony that's just going to be the price we have to pay.