[aklug] Re: SSDs

I have Momentus XT 500GB drives in two computers. Overall I've been happy with the performance of the drives as fixed platter hard drives, with this said, the move to SSD was a night-and-day performance difference. From here forward (until SSD's are close to the same price as HDs) if I need tons of space I'll still purchase a platter-based hard drive but if I'm building a desktop I'll install a SSD as my boot/program/pagefile drive and use the hard drive as my media store.

-Alan
 
On Oct 19, 2012, at 4:33 PM, Shane Spencer <shane@bogomip.com> wrote:

> Also.. I have a Momentus XT in my work lappy. It works very well. A
> few peeps on the list have also installed them and I'm not 100% sure
> if they are satisfied yet.. It's an incredible compromise between
> solid flash and platter land that requires no extra drivers to
> utilize. Just a big LRU cache in flash.
>
> - Shane
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Shane Spencer <shane@bogomip.com> wrote:
>> Regardless of all the do's and dont's and if's and but's (butt's) out
>> there.. do it.. do it now.. let it change your life completely. You
>> will become a new person inside and out.. your vision sharper..
>> hearing better.. booting faster..
>>
>> Have fun using one to do a Debian install from local repositories.
>> It's nice not having to seek nearly as often... Now have nowhere near
>> as much fun doing it in platters.
>>
>> I've had to replace an SSD once. They sent me a replacement free. I
>> backed up my data. I won.
>>
>> - Shane
>>
>> On Thu, 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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