Quake3World

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

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.

wondering because isnt this the same technology as flash drives. I have had 3 flash drives die from one second to the next

OCZ SSDs are extremely unreliable. Great advice bro.

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.

Uhm, ssd drives do not have a spinning magnetic surface

I didn't say that they did.

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

yes? me? $200-$99999?

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

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.

trick question ?