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On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Rhia Knowles wrote:
All depends on what you want it for. The read speeds of SSDs are supposed to be significantly faster then HDDs, thus speeding up program loading and stuff. I wouldnt store Documents on it but for the OS itself, considering you can always reinstall it from the livecd onto a new one...
Affordable SSDs aren't that faster than current hard drives - and until very recenty they were slower - the SDD in my AAO is really slow - some 10MB/sec if I'm lucky... I have spinny drives in servers that can sustain read speeds of 120MB/sec... (that's individual drives, not RAID)
Were they gain though is random seek time - which is zero.
The only reason I havent experimented is the prices of the bloody things....
There is that...Compact Flash is cheap right now though - it's possible to build a box with several CF cards in. My new PBXs boot directly off CF - and there is even a mod. for the AAO (and others) to replace their slow SSD with a much faster CF device!
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