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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/21/2012 11:51 AM, Alan Evans
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 6:35 AM,
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">You mean that all
this hype over SSD's and they're LIMITED? I thought they
were supposed to be BETTER than the spinning drives of
today? Exaclty how are they better if they come
"out-of-the-box" with limitations? Just curious...<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">It's well known that flash devices have
a limited number of writes. This number is pretty high,
though. And with caching and load-balancing built into the
drive's firmware, it is typically not a major concern.<br>
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However, although SSD devices have lightning-fast read
performance, writing to them is considerably slower. Think of
the difference between reading a big file from a flash thumb
drive versus writing a big file. That doesn't mean that you
should never write to them, but if the intended use involves
writing very frequently (like /var or /tmp) then it might not
be a good fit.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Also, SSD is much more expensive,
byte-for-byte, than a hard drive. If you want a lot storage
(my /home partition is well over a terabyte) then SSD is
pretty cost prohibitive.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">On the other hand, my system drive is
SSD and, because of the fast read performance, my computer
boots, after the BIOS screen, in four seconds. From the login
screen to my desktop is another 2-3 seconds. Starting even
very large applications is pretty snappy.<br>
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WOW!.....talk about speeding up. Well I have a Gateway laptop so
there's not physical way I could do 2 different types of drives, but
I also have a CentOS desktop, maybe I can do it there, is SSD
something that an old "Pentium 4" PC could use? I think I'll look
into this...do some Googling! Thanks for the info!<br>
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EGO II<br>
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