Anyone use solid-state drive instead of hard disk drive?

[reno911]

I thought about looking into an external SSD for back up purposes, but I went with the larger less expensive HDD.

I back up everything on a separate drive using Apples time machine. I think it is the coolest new feature to their os. I can go back and see what I have done if I made a mistake and or deleted something I didn't want to.

The drive I have is wireless so my wife's macbook can access it too, mostly used for storage of our media and documents, it has a secondary purpose of a shared hardrive. As well as being a TB in size, we'll never see the day it gets full.

[Nard Cox]

Originally Posted by reno911

As well as being a TB in size, we'll never see the day it gets full.

15 years (rough guess) ago we thought we would never need a 12MB drive

As for back-up I would prefer a HDD. The space/$ is sooo much better than SSD that I don't see how to ''defend'' buying a SSD unless you have a pool build of diamants and filled with liquid gold.

[zeropointbug]

Originally Posted by Nard Cox

15 years (rough guess) ago we thought we would never need a 12MB drive

As for back-up I would prefer a HDD. The space/$ is sooo much better than SSD that I don't see how to ''defend'' buying a SSD unless you have a pool build of diamants and filled with liquid gold.

Don't you mean 25 years ago? 15 years ago I had a 4GB HDD in with a Pentium 166mhz 32mb ram PC, beat that.

[whitrzac]

Originally Posted by zeropointbug

Don't you mean 25 years ago? 15 years ago I had a 4GB HDD in with a Pentium 166mhz 32mb ram PC, beat that.

IBM commodore FTW


I miss my turbo button

[bdebde]

Originally Posted by zeropointbug

Don't you mean 25 years ago? 15 years ago I had a 4GB HDD in with a Pentium 166mhz 32mb ram PC, beat that.

Somewhere I have a 52 mb HD with a $499 price tag on it (ouch).

[Nard Cox]

Originally Posted by zeropointbug

Don't you mean 25 years ago? 15 years ago I had a 4GB HDD in with a Pentium 166mhz 32mb ram PC, beat that.

Also possible, I'm just 24y old so can't remember 25y back . But it's ways funny when people say they will never need the space.

@ BrianG, thanks 4 the update. I should keep track of the news more ...

[kraegar]

I've not bothered to drop the cash on them for personal use. I'm OK with the speeds I'm getting out of sata drives in a RAID array for now.

However, at work we've begun experimenting with them in our SAN, using IBM's server class SSD's (rebranded), and putting the "hot" data on them. Our storage controllers are smart enough to start noticing block write issues, and the SSD's we're getting have built-in redundancy, and early warnings for impending failures. That being said, they drastically improve performance for the entire SC when we move the hottest data to them. It's pretty cool stuff.

Tony

[zeropointbug]

Yeah, the latest SSD's are extremely fast, they really do live up to their reputation and ratings. My friend has one, a cheaper one, Kingston SSD NOW 60GB IIRC, one of the slowest, but damn, leaves a HDD in the dust.

I can't remember for the life of me, the firmware type, some acronym... anyways, it reads and writes in an intelligent way that drastically increases useful cycles available from the device.

Personally I would wait another year or two before jumping in, they are getting better at such a fast pace right now, by the time it arrived at your door beign shipped, a new one will be available that is faster, last longer, and less expensive.