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PostPosted: 10-16-2011 04:51 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


are solid state hard drives as good as they sound. anyone using one. price
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PostPosted: 10-16-2011 05:50 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I have an OCz Vertex 2. Works great for me. Vertex 3's are much faster if you have a new motherboard that supports 6GB/s transfer rates.



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PostPosted: 10-16-2011 09:34 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


wondering because isnt this the same technology as flash drives. I have had 3 flash drives die from one second to the next
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PostPosted: 10-16-2011 09:43 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


OCZ SSDs are extremely unreliable. Great advice bro.
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PostPosted: 10-17-2011 08:26 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Mazda, you're basing that conclusion on what, exactly?


Flash drives are about as similar to an SSD drive as hard disk drives are to floppy disks - both have the same principles of a spinning magnetic surface that is used to contain data, but the functionality and design are obviously different. The types of memory used on SSD and flash drives are different, the interface is different, and you don't carry your SSD in your lint-filled pockets all the time.

If you're worried about protecting your data, trust in redundancy instead of any particular hardware. SSDs are designed for performance gains, and while they will generally have better mean-time-to-failure rates than HDDs, they aren't designed to be error proof. Back up your stuff.



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PostPosted: 10-17-2011 12:35 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Uhm, ssd drives do not have a spinning magnetic surface
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PostPosted: 10-17-2011 12:38 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I didn't say that they did.



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PostPosted: 10-17-2011 12:44 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


quaker13 wrote:
are solid state hard drives as good as they sound. anyone using one. price



yes? me? $200-$99999?
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PostPosted: 10-17-2011 12:49 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I'll take "PC Hardware" for $400, Trebek.



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PostPosted: 10-17-2011 01:46 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


obsidian wrote:
I'll take "PC Hardware" for $400, Trebek.


This component with a self-descriptive name incorporates the electronics that bridge the NAND memory components to the host computer.
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PostPosted: 10-18-2011 07:46 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


trick question ?



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