[aklug] Re: SSDs

Relevant: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/14/linus-torvald-hates-hard-drives-satan_n_1965464.html

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From: "Alan C." <alan@caruth.org>
Date: Friday, October 19, 2012 12:06 am
Subject: [aklug] Re: SSDs
To: Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com>, AKLUG Mailing List <aklug@aklug.org>

> Prices have come down and reliability/controller tech as increased
> to the point to where SSDs are a great solution IMO. As with HD's
> there are still occasional controller/SSD interaction quirks but as
> a whole the performance is a beast. If an app takes more than 5
> seconds or so to boot now I find myself tapping my fingers (a long
> way from pressing Play on the tape drive then making a sandwich...)
> To give a real example - starting a Windows VM on my Mac used to
> take 5+ minutes to get to a boot screen from the Mac desktop, now
> it takes <45 seconds.
>
> If you have a ton of data and don't want to spend all the cash up-
> front I've seen multiple people buy a SSD for your boot/system/app
> drive, then use the SSD to store all your media, which removes the
> burden of general system activities from the HD. All of the folks
> I've heard upgrade in this way have reported good results.
>
> Strange to think that five years ago everyone recommended RAM as
> the primary upgrade you could do to boost performance, and now, in
> the world of 4+GB machines for cheap, speeding up the next
> bottleneck - the HD - has become the target.
>
> At least for me, I say go for it. Once you are spoiled by 20-45
> second computer boot times you won't want to go back.
>
> Now that I've said all this, I've only been on a SSD in my computer
> for months rather than years so I might still have rose-tinted
> glasses. I've heard positive results from those who have used them
> longer but I haven't had long-term experience yet except in gadgets
> with flash memory and random hacked-up devices using CF/SD as their
> primary media.
> -Alan
>
> On Oct 18, 2012, at 11:52 PM, Christopher Howard
> <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:
>
> > Anybody on this list using SSDs instead of traditional hard
> drives? How
> > has your experiences been with them? Reliability? Lifetime? Did it
> > justify the higher price?
> >
> > I'm considering making the switch... have had a rather frustrating
> > experience with my hard drives in the reliability area. Seems
> like I'm
> > rolling a dice every time I buy one. Never know if one is going
> to last
> > two years before having issues, or two months.
> >
> > --
> > frigidcode.com
> > indicium.us
> >
>
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