Intel SSD's

[dawman]

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/in ... spx?i=3403

This is very interesting indeed. It seems as though gaming, and music on these SSD's are way ahead of my beloved Raptors. I don't have the VelociRaptor, but was going to upgrade to those when my 150's and 74's show any signs of trouble.

I think that by the time I upgrade in a year or so, these will be the best choice.

They'll be cheap by then as the market becomes more crowded.

One thing is that these benches showed why certain SSD's show little performance boosts. Waiting is a virtue.

Older Raptors would have scored at 5500 PC Marks, and most HDD's @ 7200rpm would be around 5100. That a pretty huge difference.

[garyb]

also, where is the bottleneck? is it the drive itself? if not, then a faster drive might not have any tangible, real world benefits....

[dawman]

All valid points indeed.

But by the time I upgrade all of these issues will be addressed probably.

Another benefit is if they retain the same inherent flaws, the fastest drive around, will be very cheap, and I can attest to their lifespan.

It does appear as if the entire world economy is based on disposability.

My 82 year old Mother still recalls the nylons that were produced during WWII that wouldn't run, even if a fingernail file were to rake it's material. But naturally they aren't allowed to make it to the public. Uncle Sam always knows better.

[ScofieldKid]

Looks like high-bandwidth-streaming-writes is where the SSD still lags.

I will give some props to the Velociraptor, as a current market choices. It's extremely quiet, and of course, quite fast in comparison to most consumer drives.

My one thought on the new SSD's is that we still have the "SMART" problem. It's not clear to me what the failure modes are, even those in the new SSD designs. It would seem that the Operating System would have to interact with the SMART features of the drive... and then provide instructions to the filesystem on actions to take... and give warnings to the user.

A good image backup, and incremental backups, still seem like required practice for anyone who really cares about their data. GHOST, Acronis, SyncBack, etc.