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ListerOfSmeg on 19 July 2013
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Viper1 said:
Mohasus said:
ListerOfSmeg said:
no moving parts is another advantage of SSD.
I personally think they have a lot of advantages over HDDs. speed, reliabilty, performance.

Reliability isn't one of them.

Actually, reliability is most certainly one of them.   HDD's being mechanical are far more susceptible to failure under general operating conditions than are SSD's.   And even then SSD's are being being used in harsh environements now because they aren't effected by temperature, pressure, noise and vibrations like HDD's are.

Now if you plan to write 1 TB of data to the drive every single day, then an SDD may not last as long....unless you have good wear leveling and over provising software built in like Samsung does.

Fifaguy360 said:

That's only really for people whose time is worth the money i.e. a programming, developer etc.

The regular joe/janes are better off with HDDs unless they just have money to blow.

Throw a $60 60 GBB SDD into a regular computer as the OS/Boot drive and they'll notice a huge difference in boot times, program start up times, virus scans, etc...

 

As for this SDD specifically, it will likely retail for between $550 to $650.  Samsung is selling some SDD's for $0.65 per GB and these are coming on a smaller memery process meaning costs are reduced.   Granted those are still high prices but an SSD of this capacity isn't developed for every day web browsing, MS Word and email usage anyway.


Was about to say that but you beat me to it.