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Why I am staying *AWAY* from SSDs! by jaqie2009-03-31 01:22:40
  Feh. I have the Intel (the X25-M). It's awesome. by firehawk2009-03-31 02:32:20
    10,000 writes max by jaqie2009-03-31 02:48:08
      addendum: by jaqie2009-03-31 02:56:03
        Definetely no replacement for *data* HDs yet. by aix tom 2009-03-31 03:01:01
It makes some sense to use a SSD as the Windows-drive or maybe for /usr and /lib on Linux system if you want a performance boost.

There a 10GB SSD should be plenty, and there are not much writes on those partitions. And it doesn't matter much if the die.

For big data partitions and/or partitions with lots of writes all the time I still would go for magnetic platters.

I could very well imagine that there will be more and more of a split into read-mostly SSD "OS" drives and read-write Magnetic "Data" drives in that direction in the next years or so.

Would also depend on how big the RAM gets. When /usr and /lib is already completely cached in the RAM, there is not much use for additional HDD performance there.
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          I agree. by firehawk2009-03-31 03:08:47
            Yep. by aix tom2009-03-31 03:12:41
            <Deleted><Deleted>2009-03-31 03:20:01
              Mod'd: Double (n/t) by Tyop2009-03-31 03:20:17
            So you agree with him but not with me by jaqie2009-03-31 03:25:04
              What the h%$l is this? by jaqie2009-03-31 03:46:49
                Step back and take a breath. by firehawk2009-03-31 04:37:22
                A big misunderstanding between two tired people? by FNORDer2009-03-31 05:43:38
                  thanks by jaqie2009-03-31 05:59:13
                    While I am male... by FNORDer2009-03-31 06:07:53
                      O.o huh? by jaqie2009-03-31 06:12:44
                        I'd gathered as much. by FNORDer2009-03-31 06:18:40
              Limited use!=complete dismissal. by OsteSpiser2009-03-31 04:47:05
                So I didn't say "when used as a HDD replacement" by jaqie2009-03-31 05:01:47
                  "Why I am staying *AWAY* from SSDs! " by PSYCHOI3OY2009-03-31 05:08:40
                    I don't understand your point. by jaqie2009-03-31 05:12:41
                      I don't want to get in the middle of the debate by PSYCHOI3OY2009-03-31 05:26:59
                        Did you miss by jaqie2009-03-31 05:34:28
                          Ok, I see that now by PSYCHOI3OY2009-03-31 05:49:26
                          {{{{everyone}}}} by aix tom2009-03-31 05:52:25
                            lol (n/t) by jaqie2009-03-31 06:05:55
                            you mean I've gotta stop baiting the BSD and OS/2 by FNORDer2009-03-31 06:15:13
            Swap is the quickest way to kill Flash by intrinsic2009-03-31 05:53:58
              that's part of why I just upped to 8GB ram (n/t) by jaqie2009-03-31 06:04:53
          current consumer motherboards allow for by jaqie2009-03-31 03:10:26
            Trust me...just normal operation flies. by firehawk2009-03-31 03:20:49
              as compared to ram writes? (n/t) by jaqie2009-03-31 03:23:14
              Have you ever tried Puppy Linux? by djones99602009-03-31 05:58:38
                DSL can do that and is even faster by jaqie2009-03-31 06:03:59
                  Does it let you save changes between boots? nt by djones99602009-03-31 06:15:42
                    you can burn changes to disc by jaqie2009-03-31 06:18:54
                      Cool by djones99602009-03-31 06:21:48
                        easily added with a .dsl addon file by jaqie2009-03-31 06:22:47
                How much RAM does it need? (n/t) by MatthewDBA2009-03-31 06:13:24
                  seeing as how it doesn't fill a 700MB CD... (n/t) by jaqie2009-03-31 06:15:32
                    I'm still barely getting used to by MatthewDBA2009-03-31 06:19:43
                      I just went from 1.5GB to 8GB I hear yah! (n/t) by jaqie2009-03-31 06:21:02
                        Actually, going from by MatthewDBA2009-03-31 06:30:16
                          I use PC games to keep my sanity by jaqie2009-03-31 06:38:58
            ah, so win 7 will live without swap? by Freakazoid2009-03-31 06:55:48
              see for yourself by jaqie2009-03-31 07:07:30
                Nice wallpaper by confused.brit2009-03-31 12:35:50
                  no. (n/t) by jaqie2009-03-31 14:23:07

 

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