Solid State Drives Tested With TRIM Support

Vigile writes "Despite the rising excitement over SSDs, some of it has been tempered by performance degradation issues. The promised land is supposed to be the mighty TRIM command — a way for the OS to indicate to the SSD a range of blocks that are no longer needed because of deleted files. Apparently Windows 7 will implement TRIM of some kind but for now you can use a proprietary TRIM tool on a few select SSDs using Indilinx controllers. A new article at PC Perspective evaluates performance on a pair of Indilinx drives as well as the TRIM utility and its efficacy."

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But its the future

[telchine]

I finally got the opportunity to test out SSDs this year. There may be the odd teething problem to get over, but in my mind there is no market in the future for mechanical drives except maybe as cheap low-speed devices for storing non-critical information... in much the same way as tape drives were used a few years ago.

Re:But its the future

[MeatBag PussRocket]

if by "proven rock-solid" you mean horrid fidelity and media degradation rates, i'd say you are correct about tapes. if you're client has a 30 petabyte tape archive there is probably some horrible inefficiency goin on. (i'm sure you probably have little control ofer the situation, i have similar clients) but if they have 30Pb of data on tape that they access regularly, they're wasting a LOT of time just retrieving data. you should really consider a SAN NAS or similar. HDD storage is very cheap these days and LTO4 tapes are pretty pricey. we all know they have shoddy storage quality to boot. if they dont access it regulary then its probably a real waste of money to own, record and store 30Pb of data. either way, just the physical storage of that many tapes is probably about equivelant to the sq. footage needed for a rack or 2 (or 3) of blade servers with the same storage capacity.