How so Thrax, many of the current SSDs, either the high speed or the dogs, draw just as much power as 4,500rpm notebook drives. Some of the reviews have reported total power consumption (Whr) for the entire test series to show this.
Yeah, power consumption is not a big deal. And if a few extra watts IS a problem, then the people worrying about it won't be spending extra money on SSd's in the first place.
Sorry guys.. random access wont be that bad... Price I'm afraid is.. who cares about power consumption really for a SSD drive? To be on a laptop they would be external with their own powersupply anyway.
Sorry guys.. random access wont be that bad... Price I'm afraid is.. who cares about power consumption really for a SSD drive? To be on a laptop they would be external with their own powersupply anyway.
Tex, all these SSD's are 2.5" formfactor.. they go inside the laptop.
Sorry I had never seen a 2.5 SSD. I had messed with quite a few before but all were 5.25 scsi interface. I had seen some before that 5.25 IDE but I had never see any 2.5 SSD's. Most I had seen used regular production ram to populate the drive. Most uses of SSD drives are not intended for laptops at all. The price alone bumps it from most laptop applications.
BEFORE... meant a few years ago. That was not incorrect. It was said in the past tense. Thats what BEFORE means. (long sigh...)
I am thrilled about the new form factor! Still curious what a 256 gb SSD would cost that would put it into a LAPTOP market and not a server market where most SSD's reside.
I have actually used and tested a number of SSD drives. How many have you used in real life?
Are you thinking of an SSD with NAND Flash as the storage media or the older technology that actually stored it on Ram? As of right now, server grades SSD's are just making an appearance.
I have used several to date now, but of course that is part of my job.
So say that you have a couple SSD's in a RAID 0 Stripe, what in the system then becomes the bottleneck, the interface?
The controller interface, yes. Anything more than a single SSD on an on-board controller would be a waste. You would definitely want a quality hardware RAID controller with 4 if not 8 PCI-E lanes and plenty of RAM for write caching if you wanted to do a serious array of SSD.
The controller interface, yes. Anything more than a single SSD on an on-board controller would be a waste. You would definitely want a quality hardware RAID controller with 4 if not 8 PCI-E lanes and plenty of RAM for write caching if you wanted to do a serious array of SSD.
Wish I could say I needed that, I can't imagine speeds like that..
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I am thrilled about the new form factor! Still curious what a 256 gb SSD would cost that would put it into a LAPTOP market and not a server market where most SSD's reside.
I have actually used and tested a number of SSD drives. How many have you used in real life?
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I have used several to date now, but of course that is part of my job.
The controller interface, yes. Anything more than a single SSD on an on-board controller would be a waste. You would definitely want a quality hardware RAID controller with 4 if not 8 PCI-E lanes and plenty of RAM for write caching if you wanted to do a serious array of SSD.
Wish I could say I needed that, I can't imagine speeds like that..