SSD's anyone?

[TSR2]

Hi Chaps,

I know some of you have been considering SSD's over the past while. Scan have a clearance section on Ebay and 2 colleagues have recently bought some factory refurbished SSD's from here, each with a 12 month warranty and they are very cheap!

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Scan-Computers ... 7675.l2563

The killer one is this 512GB drive for under £170
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/512GB-OCZ-Agi ... 2523161693

Might be useful for some.

[DaveB]

Yes indeed.. the 512gig would be a killer for me too if I bought it I don't think SWMBO would consider either size a worthy purchase.. especially on the cusp of having to fork out £2940 for a new boiler

ATB
DaveB

[Filonian]

Dave, it would appear your good Lady's priorities are askew. New boilers over flight sim gear??

Graham

[Garry Russell]

A lot for a big kettle ...doesn't even come in BEA RS

[DaveB]

I know.. ridiculous innit



ATB
DaveB

[Vancouver]

I read recently that SSD's wonderful as they are have a limited amount of "accesses" before they give up and die. Who can explain this as I was led to believe they have no moving parts.

[TSR2]

Hi Alex,

SSD's use memory chips, similar to USB pen drives or the memory cards you would put in a camera. These are solid state (no moving parts) but after several million reads and writes the "cells" that store the information loose their ability to hold the info. There are clever electronics on the SSD's that mark cells that have lost their ability to store data so that data doesn't get written there. In reality this good be years. The really way to think about SSD's is that you are much more likely to have a traditional disk die (completely - loosing all your data) than an SSD. Yes, as the years go by, the number of cells that store the data will get less and thus the capacity of the disk will decrease, but to put this into perspective, the percentage cell failure rate per year from normal operation in a home PC is roughly 0.005%

Your a lot more likely to loose a lot more data when a spinning disk dies than an SSD.

[simondix]

I have just got a 550gb SSD for FX. Runs OK

[airboatr]

You're a lot more likely to loose a lot more data when a spinning disk dies than an SSD.

Surely, you're not seriously suggesting we don't backup our data after all these years of you scolding us to do so.



Thanks for the HU

[TSR2]

No mate, Backups are still essential