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toby1 Scooby Slapper
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Posted: 14:58 - 12 Jun 2018 Post subject: Hard drive - Solid state drive |
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As title, most new laptops now seem to boast solid state drives as opposed to hard drives.
What are the advantages / disadvantages of the two? Most SSD stated as 256GB doesn't seem much when Hard drives are 1TB upwards.
I know hard drives can fail but are SSD drives more reliable?
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Posted: 19:33 - 12 Jun 2018 Post subject: |
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SSD is way faster and quicker* than whatever HDD + it's completely noiseless and more durable (portable computers). Now, the pricing is quite off putting to many. To keep the cost down (portable computers), do you have a DVD/BR drive and do you use it? If not, there is your answer, 250GB system SSD + HDD for storage.
How long do SSDs last? Hard to say, just like with HDDs. Some units will last longer, some might die prematurely. If we strictly speak about the wear, I use a SSD as my system drive for about 5 years and just checking the SSD manager app, there is 96% of life left in it, no failures, no warnings, about 2030 power cycles; 517 days being powered on.
*You click at stuff and stuff happens, no waiting, no fragmentation issues. Even when you click at data you haven't been using for years, all will load like you've just been using the data yesterday (notice how with a HDD the data that's not being frequently used takes more time to load). This is also cool in gaming, as with many games, the loading times become non-existant! SSDs are also very addictive. ____________________ '87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
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Posted: 09:12 - 13 Jun 2018 Post subject: |
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Thanks for all the replies |
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SSDs are way better and faster. Boot time for the computer is reduced to seconds.
People have mentioned that the lifetime of the SSD is measured different to that of an old fashioned disc drive. This is true. I have a little piece of software which measures the lifetime of my SSD. It's called "SSDLife" and has free and paid versions. The free version is enough. It looks like this:
https://cdn.bcf.44bytes.net/files/wechat_screenshot_20180616140545.png
So I still have 7 years with this thing. Far more time than needed really. The rest of the laptop will have long since burned out and worn itself away by that time. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 297 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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