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    A Guide To Finding The Best SSD For Your Money

    Clickfree Traveler External SSD is Credit-Card Sized For Convenience

    DDRdrive's X1 SSD is Superfast and Superexpensive

    Fusion-io ioDrive Duo is the Worlds Fastest SSD

    Intel SSDs May Suffer From Irreparable Fragmentation Slowdowns

    Super Talent SSDs Boost Netbook Flash Storage To 64GB For $169

    Fusion-io ioDrive Is The Fastest Storage Device in the World

    Samsung Manufacturing 256GB SSDs, Just Like They Promised

    Seagate Won't Do Flash SSDs, Waiting For Next-Gen Tech

    Intel's Superfast SSDs Make For Even Speedier RAID 0 Rig
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    Image of DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star. DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
    07/30/09

    In reply to A Guide To Finding The Best SSD For Your Money
    There's a LOT of kvetching in the comments below about how LaptopMag didn't include the Intel SSD in their roundup. The rationale is actually very simple: Intel does not make a 128GB SDD for under $450 (Newegg has their X-25M 160GB for $650, but it's currently out of stock).

    Seriously, RTFA or GTFO.
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    Image of CarlisleBarlow CarlisleBarlow
    07/30/09

    In reply to A Guide To Finding The Best SSD For Your Money
    We couldn't get every drive in in time for the round-up, but the G.Skill Falcon uses the same exact controller as the Vertex, Patriot Torqx, Super Talent UltraDrive ME, and RunCore Pro IV (all of which we reviewed). The Corsair 128M uses the same exact parts and firmware as the OCZ Summit so it should perform similarly.
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    Image of .357 .357
    05/07/09

    In reply to Clickfree Traveler External SSD is Credit-Card Sized For Convenience
    USB? I can't be the only one still using these.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/07/09

    @C63 Went Loco Killed M3 And RS4: Wow! What is that, the successor to Blu-ray? And apparently it can hold TWO full hi-def movies? Very cool!
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    05/07/09

    @bosskev: It even has the capability of Dual OS format.
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    Image of Révolution Révolution
    05/07/09

    @bosskev: Sarcasm fail. ^

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    05/07/09

    @Révolution: I need to figure out the ASCII art for this site.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/07/09

    @Révolution: ASCII art fail. ^
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    Image of ridgecity ridgecity
    05/07/09

    @C63 Went Loco Killed M3 And RS4: Don't you know you are not supposed you use pens on it?? you just ruined about 315KB!
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    05/07/09

    @ridgecity: Sorry, I was busy working on a new version of Netscape.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    05/07/09

    In reply to Clickfree Traveler External SSD is Credit-Card Sized For Convenience
    Wouldn't it be just another USB drive in a credit card sized package?
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    05/05/09

    In reply to DDRdrive's X1 SSD is Superfast and Superexpensive
    Not only is it overpriced for four gigs, it's hella huge for four gigs, I don't see where this thing has much use. Most of the SSD's i've seen are at least pretty dang tiny so great for small footprint systems like netbooks, carputers, or a pocket server.
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    Image of troublescoot troublescoot
    05/05/09

    @Skunky: [www.blinkenlights.com] for contrast and comparison.


    Just saying.

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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    05/05/09

    @troublescoot: We're talkin' hard drives though, so probably want something more like this:
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    Image of metal face eagle premium is not from So Cal metal face eagle premium is not from So Cal
    03/11/09

    In reply to Fusion-io ioDrive Duo is the Worlds Fastest SSD
    Is this not just RAID on a card?
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    Image of Monty Monty
    03/11/09

    In reply to Fusion-io ioDrive Duo is the Worlds Fastest SSD
    Imagine how fast my 386SX will run with this bad boy in it! Well, ignoring the slot problem, the bus speed problem, the slow memory, the processor incapable of accessing that much information that quickly, and the fact that the power supply died in that thing years ago. Other than that - it would be amazing.
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    Image of alexmetal alexmetal
    03/11/09

    In reply to Fusion-io ioDrive Duo is the Worlds Fastest SSD
    Good God. Dell needs to have these available on their PowerEdge servers. Can you imagine 5 of the 1.28TB in RAID 5? Ohhhhh my god.


    Alright. Now that I've got that out of my system. Why the fuck is this necessary for anything BUT a server? It's not.

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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    03/11/09

    @alexmetal: I would argue that it is more appropriate for home computing than for a server. Servers have more need for scalability and redundancy. SSD RAIDs do not qualify well, for either.


    For a home system the life of the SSD will fall well within the usable time frame for a household of users. It will speed up common daily tasks to fall in line with expectations brought about by faster processors, but not borne out by current HDD technology. Folks will be able to transcode video faster (along with GPU transcoding) and perform tasks like large file moving (essential with the growing size of files) in more realistic time frames.

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    Image of frigg frigg
    02/20/09

    In reply to Intel SSDs May Suffer From Irreparable Fragmentation Slowdowns
    This doesn't sound like too hard a problem to fix. Just embed a simple algorithm to periodically defrag distributed writes. What's the biggie?
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    Image of Pai-Yao Eric Wang Pai-Yao Eric Wang
    02/19/09

    In reply to Intel SSDs May Suffer From Irreparable Fragmentation Slowdowns
    Someone please educate me on this, but I thought one of the advantages of having a SSD is that it doesn't suffer from fragmentation like a conventional disk drive?
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    02/20/09

    @Pai-Yao Eric Wang: I believe Moeyyy came the closest to answering you (yes there is still fragmenting) but left out that the big reason that SSD fragmentation wasn't supposed to be a problem is not just speed but also that a drive reading head doesn't have to zip around a spinning platter looking for the fragments, leading to errors introduced by the mechanics and timing.


    What nobody has explained here is why fragmentation is causign a performance problem when it was not supposed to be anymore.

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    Image of baconbot baconbot
    02/19/09

    In reply to Intel SSDs May Suffer From Irreparable Fragmentation Slowdowns
    Isn't this just trying to solve a problem that didn't exist in the first place?
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/19/09

    @baconbot: What the hell are you talking about?
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    01/28/09

    In reply to Super Talent SSDs Boost Netbook Flash Storage To 64GB For $169
    My aging dell inspiron has a paltry 30gb hard drive. I doubt if it's R/W speeds are any better than this thing.


    I could throw one of these in there, and in theory, have better performance AND battery life.


    I may just have to do that.

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    Image of spazztastic spazztastic
    01/28/09

    In reply to Super Talent SSDs Boost Netbook Flash Storage To 64GB For $169
    Will this work for the Dell Mini 9?
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    01/28/09

    @spazztastic: According to NewEgg reviewers the SSD that was for the 901 did not support the Mini9. The dimensions of this SSD are 69.5 x 32.1 mm If your Mini9 has an SSD that has those exact dimensions then I'd say at least you have physical compatibility. But Buyer beware. And good luck getting dimensional specifics from Dell.
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    01/28/09

    In reply to Super Talent SSDs Boost Netbook Flash Storage To 64GB For $169
    Will it fit in the 901? Smaller than S series. Don;t make me do legwork people!!
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    01/28/09

    @qbrad: Nevermind. Same dimensions as the Slow Patriot on NewEgg. Saweeeet!
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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    12/11/08

    In reply to Fusion-io ioDrive Is The Fastest Storage Device in the World
    I predict in 10 years we'll have the equivalent of that thing in the size of a pencil eraser.
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    12/11/08

    @admoseremic: I predict that in ten years all computers will be able to fix you a milk shake on command. Also, they will use rat brains for RAM.
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