HappySqurriel on 18 December 2008
| thekitchensink said: So what exactly are the advantages of solid state over a hard drive? |
A solid state drive has dramatically lower seek times and latency which results in much higher data transfer rates ... On top of that, if you put 2 (or 4) solid state discs into a Raid 0 configuration you get (roughly) twice (or 4 times) the data transfer rate.
Also, spinning the disc takes a lot of energy and produces quite a bit of heat which limits how small or portable a laptop (or other device) can become.
