Comments on: Solid State Disk drives: Resistance is futile! http://fileinabox.com/solid-state-disk-drive-facts Backup your files to prevent data loss Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:00:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: George Birbilis http://fileinabox.com/solid-state-disk-drive-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-658 George Birbilis Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:00:04 +0000 http://fileinabox.com/?p=106#comment-658 Also note Google Gears technology for offline caching which allows web apps to work offline too and sync back with the web when connected. Also note Google Gears technology for offline caching which allows web apps to work offline too and sync back with the web when connected.

]]> By: Johan http://fileinabox.com/solid-state-disk-drive-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-618 Johan Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:39:47 +0000 http://fileinabox.com/?p=106#comment-618 @Shawn: The article is a year old and you are right that since then ssd's have not taken off as I predicted. The netbook market is indeed a good example of that. But I still believe that all (or at least a big chunk) data is going to move to 'the cloud' and the upcoming Google Chrome OS that was announced this week is a good example of that. Note that official Chrome OS devices will <b>only</b> support SSD drives and all personal data is stored in the cloud. This does mean that you will have to be connected all the time, but this is becoming less of an issue with the broad availability of mobile internet and wifi. @Shawn: The article is a year old and you are right that since then ssd’s have not taken off as I predicted. The netbook market is indeed a good example of that.

But I still believe that all (or at least a big chunk) data is going to move to ‘the cloud’ and the upcoming Google Chrome OS that was announced this week is a good example of that. Note that official Chrome OS devices will only support SSD drives and all personal data is stored in the cloud. This does mean that you will have to be connected all the time, but this is becoming less of an issue with the broad availability of mobile internet and wifi.

]]> By: Shawn Patrick http://fileinabox.com/solid-state-disk-drive-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-616 Shawn Patrick Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:12:18 +0000 http://fileinabox.com/?p=106#comment-616 The article is misleading on many points. First of all, the "latest" ssd drive the author is talking about is only available on the MAC or you can install it yourself for $600. No one in their right mind is going to pay $600 for a SSD drive on a netbook. The 2nd is the "cloud" thing. Not everyone has access to wifi or broadband. That makes cloud computing totally worthless. All those flickr photos don't mean a thing if you can't connect at a high speed to the web. So yes, almost everyone does need more storage space than what SSD drives offer. And if you notice, when they first came out, all netbooks had SSD drives. Now less and less do. In fact, Best Buy doesn't even stock SSD drive notebooks anymore at our store in Lexington, SC. But they offer about 6 different netbooks with real hard drives. And the better harddrives easily beat a 250Mb read speed by several fold. The SSD drive you will get in your average netbook are about 5 to 10 times slower as a low end hard drive on an EMachine. The article is misleading on many points. First of all, the “latest” ssd drive the author is talking about is only available on the MAC or you can install it yourself for $600. No one in their right mind is going to pay $600 for a SSD drive on a netbook.

The 2nd is the “cloud” thing. Not everyone has access to wifi or broadband. That makes cloud computing totally worthless. All those flickr photos don’t mean a thing if you can’t connect at a high speed to the web. So yes, almost everyone does need more storage space than what SSD drives offer.

And if you notice, when they first came out, all netbooks had SSD drives. Now less and less do. In fact, Best Buy doesn’t even stock SSD drive notebooks anymore at our store in Lexington, SC. But they offer about 6 different netbooks with real hard drives.

And the better harddrives easily beat a 250Mb read speed by several fold.

The SSD drive you will get in your average netbook are about 5 to 10 times slower as a low end hard drive on an EMachine.

]]> By: Steven http://fileinabox.com/solid-state-disk-drive-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Steven Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:53:12 +0000 http://fileinabox.com/?p=106#comment-13 Wow! Samsung is going to mass-produce a blazing fast 256GB ssd! http://gizmodo.com/393198/blazing-samsung-256gb-ssd-is-the-one-weve-been-waiting-for Wow! Samsung is going to mass-produce a blazing fast 256GB ssd!

http://gizmodo.com/393198/blazing-samsung-256gb-ssd-is-the-one-weve-been-waiting-for

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