<![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing? - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing? - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> i think its mac, but this site will implode if they say anything bad about them. dell has sold maybe 10 SSD machines, 2/10 aint bad LOL.

keysereble

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> ROFL
Funny... when first announced, everyone was like "IT WILL BE THOUSAND TIMES FASTER"... and then "IT WILL CONSUME FAR LESS" and "IT WILL BE FAR MORE RELIABLE".

Ok ok, technology is still maturing. Still funny anyways.
One more prove it's not worth being an early adopter.

I must also add that I've been dealing with PC computers since PC-XT (and other microcomputers before that), and not ONE hard drive failed on me so far.

My last Desktop (I only have laptops now) had 3HDDs... one SATA and two standard IDEs... and one spare for backup.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> FISSION MAILED

marcus_ivo

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> I heard we was dead.

What?

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> I think having the colonel is this picture with his classic "Snake? Snake? SNNNNAAAKKKKEEEE?!?" would be appropriate.

thechansen

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> I will never cease to chuckle at Snake being shooped into every SSD picture.

残心

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> @thebear91: Flash memory has had remapping software for a very long time, refer to DOC (disk on chip) found in the vast majority of pda/phones.

@torched: My understanding is that SSD's are the high endurance form of flash memory, which is reported by the manufacturer to have much higher read/write life spans than HD's. With that said, I never believed those reports. My personal opinion is that flash is not nearly as stable as HD's.

@nutbastard: Again, the high endurance flash type of memory is supposed to have much higher a read/write life then HD's. And, like I said, I don't believe what the manufacture reports.

@Mag: SSD's are not new tech, at least not completely. Flash memory has been around for some time.

jkr

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> @Mag: SSD is hardly new technology. It might be for the consumer market but it's been around for a while. Years ago I installed SSD Accelerators on SANs for the purpose of optimizing database transaction logs.

spaceman37

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> @turbofreak: Beat me to the punch. NEVER put snake with "epic fail." Ain't happenin'.

Jsembower

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> @torched:
Not at all, man, servers have high read/write activity, and not only are SSDs prohibitively expensive to begin with, they tend to not do so well when flashed back and forth over and over again. It still makes sense for servers to run redundant HDDs and risk total platter failure than to spend 4-6X as much $$$ on SSD when it's not any more reliable for day to day applications.

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> "The whole reason to pay the obscene premium for a SSD is because it's supposed to be way more reliable than your average spinny hard drive."

Really? I thought it was speed and low power consumption. It looks like the author changed the whole premise of the SSD market just to make his story sound more relevant.

gnatnat

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> Since when was SSD supposed to be more reliable @ data retention? It's more reliable in high shock/vibration but not data retention. If that was the case you would see servers using them.

torched

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> @SausageAndOnion: Sounds like the error lies between the keyboard and the chair. :P

kakashisan

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> Oh yeah, it's of course not likely at all that anyone regrets spending a grand on a mild performance improvement (which every techie knows it is) and tries to get their money back by complaining about some random problem.

mtrimpe

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> I'm using an EEE PC with a 4GB SSD drive & WinXP with no problems for 6 months of use. But a friend who has the same model failed within 3 months. I guess we will just have to wait & see what happens. I would have been ok with a 20/40MB miniture HD instead of the SSD too.

GarnetNR

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> Any body else remember the old mac virtual drive utility? I think it was a whopping 1mb on my Mac IIsi.

kir

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> @aec007
haha oh yeah, how about my blue screen of death I just got? The cause of the problem? "Windows Vista" I almost shat myself laughing, but hey at least they were up front about it.

SausageAndOnion

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> @Leonard Nimrod:
style over functionality, naturally.

willyolio

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> @sumocat:
Must be OSX.... I have not crashed on Vista since it came out and I cannot recall the last time I crashed on XP... 2 ~ 3 years ago...


aec007

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> @Samifumi: The iPod Classic also has space for a 2-platter 1.8" drive, the Air has space for a 1-platter drive.

Leonard Nimrod

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> Well, I only hope that the "100" ssd drives I have stay 100 and not 80.

--Tito--

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> How is Snake an epic fail? Snake never fails.

turbofreak

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> The question that I've always had about SSD's is comparing memory to hard drives.

When anything on a stick of memory goes bad, you replace the entire memory stick.

When a block goes bad on a hard drive, it gets mapped out and you continue on.

When it comes to SSD, I would imagine that it falls somewhere in between. There are going to be SSD failures due to one bit being held hostage by a memory chip and the whole thing will need to be replaced. Error correction and re-mapping may be possible in some cases, but unlike a bad block on a hard drive, the bad bit is always connected.

They'll get more reliable as time goes on, however, I will warn people to be more vigilant about backing the data up.

thebear91

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> Solid Snake Disk?

DIAF ;-)

axiomatic

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> I'm not surprised. An operating system that craps out on a regular basis (you know which one) would be really rough on a SSD.

sumocat

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> It aways happens like this. New technology always have problems, just sit back and watch the technology mature, or die out. No need to jump heads first onto the newest latest.

Although, I do love my Eee.

Mag

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> @SchruteBuck:
same here

th4tkid

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> The SSD like the original pricing of the iphone is a nerd tax -especially so after test results indicated a minimal bump is speed and such.

SeattleTed

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> Good. Now I hope Apple actually adds a real hard drive over 100gb in the Air. Ipods get 120gb and all the Air can do is 80GB? Weak.

Samifumi

]]> <![CDATA[20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing?]]> Is that bad? I'm only on my 3rd xbox.

SchruteBuck

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