Comments on: Micron Debuts 32GB and 64GB SSDs http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/micron-debuts-32gb-and-64gb-ssds/ Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:07:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Doug http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/micron-debuts-32gb-and-64gb-ssds/#comment-55328 Doug Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:07:12 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-55328 An SSD will start being attractive to me once I can get 30+ GB in the under-$100 price range.<br /> <br /> At this size, it can work well in my setup, as the "system" drive, holding mainly the OS and other related data. My actual personal data is kept on a separate NAS box, mounted over Gbit ethernet.<br /> <br /> I use this setup primarily because it frees me from having to worry about my personal data anytime I want to upgrade my system. Also, the NAS uses a RAID setup, increasing the reliability of my data storage, without me having to learn all about RAID.<br /> <br /> And I can start thinking about fanless systems, to reduce the noise level in the room (the NAS still has a fan, but it's relatively quiet). An SSD drive fits perfectly for such a goal.<br /> An SSD will start being attractive to me once I can get 30+ GB in the under-$100 price range.

At this size, it can work well in my setup, as the “system” drive, holding mainly the OS and other related data. My actual personal data is kept on a separate NAS box, mounted over Gbit ethernet.

I use this setup primarily because it frees me from having to worry about my personal data anytime I want to upgrade my system. Also, the NAS uses a RAID setup, increasing the reliability of my data storage, without me having to learn all about RAID.

And I can start thinking about fanless systems, to reduce the noise level in the room (the NAS still has a fan, but it's relatively quiet). An SSD drive fits perfectly for such a goal.

]]> By: Steven Biars http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/micron-debuts-32gb-and-64gb-ssds/#comment-55327 Steven Biars Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:23:38 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-55327 You do realize that SSD will eventually run circles around standard hard drives. You do realize that SSD will eventually run circles around standard hard drives.

]]> By: Karl Viklund http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/micron-debuts-32gb-and-64gb-ssds/#comment-55326 Karl Viklund Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:08:45 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-55326 Not really impressive at all. I bought a 750 GB HDD not long ago. Before I can get a SSD at 750 GB for about the same prise. I'm not really interested. And SSD doesn't preform much better then a hybrid disk. Essentially a 750 GB disk with a few GB of flash inside of it. The problem with these disks today is that despite their high transfer rate and low power consumption. Flash on the other hand has very poor random read and write performance and the write reliability is very poor. And you can't rewrite the same space as many times as you can on a normal HDD with flash. If you put flash in a normal HDD, a Hybrid drive. You get the benefit of both worlds. Not really impressive at all. I bought a 750 GB HDD not long ago. Before I can get a SSD at 750 GB for about the same prise. I'm not really interested. And SSD doesn't preform much better then a hybrid disk. Essentially a 750 GB disk with a few GB of flash inside of it. The problem with these disks today is that despite their high transfer rate and low power consumption. Flash on the other hand has very poor random read and write performance and the write reliability is very poor. And you can't rewrite the same space as many times as you can on a normal HDD with flash. If you put flash in a normal HDD, a Hybrid drive. You get the benefit of both worlds.

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