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From: geoff on 25 Apr 2010 22:02
> Always read the reviews, to see if they're really worth having. SSDs in
> general, have a pretty bad track record, in terms of consistent
> performance under all circumstances.

What sites do you recommend reading? From what I've read, SSD's are pricey
but beyond that, I did not get a feeling of 'bad track record' as opposed to
standard HDs.

--g


From: Paul on 25 Apr 2010 22:57
geoff wrote:
>> Always read the reviews, to see if they're really worth having. SSDs in
>> general, have a pretty bad track record, in terms of consistent
>> performance under all circumstances.
>
> What sites do you recommend reading? From what I've read, SSD's are pricey
> but beyond that, I did not get a feeling of 'bad track record' as opposed to
> standard HDs.
>
> --g

If you look at the articles on Anandtech, it didn't take much testing
for them to find pathological conditions that are bad for SSDs. There
are some pages, like a few from OCZtechnology, that review some of the tweaks
that can be done to file systems on SSDs. There is also the "TRIM" command,
which is most likely to be supported in the most recent OSes.

You can get reviews on Newegg for the SSDs they sell. There are some of the
cheaper SSDs, where the reviews can be uniformly bad. There are products
where the average user is pretty happy. With some of the pathological test
cases, the claim is they might not happen to you with normal usage. But
really, compared to a regular hard drive, do I want to worry about this
stuff ? If I'm paying $400 for some fancy SSD, I expect to be able to sit
back and enjoy it, not have to pamper it.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?43460-Making-XP-pro-SSD-friendly

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=669&type=expert&pid=7

(I'm using AIOE.org, so have to split long URLs onto more than one line...)

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?48309-Partition-
alignment-importance-under-Windows-XP-(32-bit-and-64-bit)..why-it-helps-with-stuttering-and-increases-drive-working-life.

Plus several articles on Anandtech...

Paul

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