[Gllug] Seeking some laptop advice

[Rich Walker]

John Hearns wrote:
> 2009/6/5 Christopher Hunter <cehunter at gb-x.org>:
>> Why?  SSDs have a limited number of read / write cycles, and are
>> hideously expensive when compared to conventional hard drives.
> 
> 
> SSDs are getting very interesting in the HPC space, firstly as a top
> tier in a storage system, which will make eg. databases go like the
> sticky stuff off a shovel, and as OS type disks in blades.
> 
> http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/mainstream/index.htm
> 
> http://download.intel.com/design/flash/nand/mainstream/mainstream-sata-ssd-datasheet.pdf
> claims five years of useful life. I have no experience of using these,
> so I Can't say if this is true/false/wishful thinking

The other advantage of an SSD is that, if you sit in the garden using an 
astronomy program, and then take your laptop back into a nice warm 
house, you won't be calling data recovery specialists the next day.

(From the department of painful and expensive lessons...)

cheers, Rich.


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