Anyone use solid-state drive instead of hard disk drive? - RC-Monster Forums

Nard Cox · 01:30 PM

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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 · 05.27.2010, 01:40 PM

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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 · 05.27.2010, 02:52 PM

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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 · 05.27.2010, 03:10 PM

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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 · 05.28.2010, 04:03 AM

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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 · 05.28.2010, 07:29 AM

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