Solid State Drives (SSD) Linux

[Steve Jardine]

I have been working with SSD's for about two years now. They have gotten better, but still have a long way to go. They are great when it comes to reading from the drive, but writes are slllllooooowww. We're talking 4 times longer than a hard drive. In the embedded place, that is a major problem. 

My code has to do a lot of "other" stuff while the writes complete. Doable, but a pain nonetheless. 

I would wait a little longer. They are really trying to get the writes faster. 

I believe that if you buy one now, you will be paying the target market price. That is the latest in write speed because the target market at this time is embedded. Many dist's discontinue the slower drives as soon as they come out with a faster drive. The faster drives seem to come out every other week. So, the price is kept high..

My .02 worth..


Steve

On Sun, 18 May 2008 20:50:16 -0700
"Lonni J Friedman" <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 7:41 PM, James McDonald
> <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> > I notice that SSD technology has now hit the laptop market. Dell is offering
> > 32 & 64 GB technology for only 600 to 1300 AUD.
> >
> > Is anyone on list using it. How long does it take to boot?
> >
> > Pros/Cons?
> 
> I don't have any, but I do remember reading an article a few weeks ago
> where they stated that the performance gain was not worth the steep
> price difference.
> 
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