Solid State Drives

[Sonyportableizer]

Been hearing about these new fancy Solid State Drives. Theyr quite, fast, and not easy to break. That being said I can find nothing on the subject of any worth.
Anyone know stuff about them or know about a good 2.5 ide solid state drive? They seem pretty interesting, though pretty expensive

 

[Bibin]

No such thing, unfortunately. They won't support TRIM or any proper wear leveling algorithm and will slow down quickly if they don't die first.

 

[Mako321]

You could always go for a fast CF card, although that isn't exactly high end SSD speeds.

 

[Sonyportableizer]

Naw im looking in the curiosity department, I saw one at the store for a few THOUSAND and was like why so much?
Not much info on google, but I thought if it was the best super awesomest SSD one could buy then maybe I could see it being that much for a rich dude

 

[bic]

Fast, cheap, good. Pick two.

If you have a bunch of RAM, get a utility that can make a RAM Disk and play with that. It's a free way to get a taste of how fast SSDs can be. (RAID 0 is also an option if you have a couple drives you don't mind wiping. My work PC has two 10k RPM UltraSCSI-320 drives in RAID 0 as the scratch and pagefile disk; it sustains about 100 megs a second and gives the old dual 3ghz P4 Xeon thing a good kick in the butt. Just keep in mind that they call it RAID 0 because that's the number of files you can recover if one of your drives fails.)

I've got a PowerBook that will soon get an SSD. Once it's together I'll post how fast it boots 7.

 

[ToastBucket]

My desktop boots from a 32GB Corsair SSD that I got for $70. Boots in like 5-7 seconds. Shuts down in less than 2. Quite nice

 

[Antome]

Fast, cheap, good. Pick two.

If you have a bunch of RAM, get a utility that can make a RAM Disk and play with that. It's a free way to get a taste of how fast SSDs can be. (RAID 0 is also an option if you have a couple drives you don't mind wiping. My work PC has two 10k RPM UltraSCSI-320 drives in RAID 0 as the scratch and pagefile disk; it sustains about 100 megs a second and gives the old dual 3ghz P4 Xeon thing a good kick in the butt. Just keep in mind that they call it RAID 0 because that's the number of files you can recover if one of your drives fails.)

I've got a PowerBook that will soon get an SSD. Once it's together I'll post how fast it boots 7.

naw, post how fast it boots 8

it's like, not even 10 seconds for me.