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Post Date: 2008-07-06
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    Posted: 06 Jul 2008 at 5:36pm
Has anyone tried one of these drives yet on their pc?
Wondering how well they would work as an OS/boot drive.
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They're still kinda pricey for most people, but because of the way they operate, you can expect them to be far more reliable, silent, and cool when compared to standard HDD. Additionally, SSD are much faster and more durable. MTFB puts them in the range of over 1000 years from what I've read. Two year warantee (sp)  is odd to me.
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I just received a laptop with a 64GB solid state drive here in the office. (It was the owner's machine so price no object). Its very fast, completely silent and no problems so far. I am a little concerned about long term reliability since they are so new, and capacities are still small.
 
I would definately get one (or two in RAID 0) if I had the $$. Another year or so and prices will drop, capacities will increase, and we will probably all be putting these in our next rigs.
 
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All the test runs I have seen have shown that SSDs are great for lots of small files accessed randomly. (IE PC boot drive)

They also show that data throughput is slower than just about every 7200 RPM or faster SATA Hard Drive, in some cases significantly so.

I think for a boot drive they would be great, for a games drive the data transfer rate would be your bottleneck.
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Interesting report on them Kliebor, I would have thought them altogether a faster drive solution, can you post where you saw those results, Ide be intersted in having a gander at them.
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I found the review I was quoting here:

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=134&Itemid=1
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