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Jump to unread Post a CommentIn a desktop you'd surely use extra conventional hard drives for media storage (and use a smaller SSD as a boot drive), and in a laptop you could achieve a similar thing by using an optical bay convertor for a mixed SSD/hard drive combo. Can an ultrabook take a conventional 7/9mm SSD drive or are they a different format (like the Macbook Air)?
I'm sure someone will have a use for it but I wouldn't have thought there'll be as many buyers as voters/comments.
Up to 95Mbps write speed
Not worth that really
Up to 95Mbps write speed
Not worth that really
noob detected.
Edited By: crazycubic on Jul 05, 2012 19:34
Up to 95Mbps write speed
Not worth that really
noob detected.
Troll detected.
That is the stats claimed on the amazon link. Ebuyer is different.
yes.
There is always one idiot. No it isnt. Up to twice the IOPS and data transfer rate.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/51455-intel-520-240gb-ssd-raid-0-performance-review-3.html
There is always one idiot. No it isnt. Up to twice the IOPS and data transfer rate.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/51455-intel-520-240gb-ssd-raid-0-performance-review-3.html
any idiot can find one link to support their argument.
The rest of us know exactly what they meant and unsderstand the practical reasons why it's a waste.
Idiot.
Such as? I'm curious.. Doing it myself, trim enabled too.. Please back up your argument.
In a desktop you'd surely use extra conventional hard drives for media storage (and use a smaller SSD as a boot drive), and in a laptop you could achieve a similar thing by using an optical bay convertor for a mixed SSD/hard drive combo. Can an ultrabook take a conventional 7/9mm SSD drive or are they a different format (like the Macbook Air)?
Not everyone is prepared to work with two drives so I think for some having a 512GB SSD for everything would be handy if they don't have large storage needs. I agree that 512GB isn't quite big enough as I'd want to move a decent chunk of video/photo files onto the drive as well as games to speed up photo and video editing applications for now I'll probably stick with a small 64GB SSD.
I think for a laptop this is ideal though as increasingly smaller machines are dropping them and for those that have them, I think it's a more practical solution to have effectively an all in one data solution with the 512GB SSD and keep the optical drive.
John
I went with a 128GB SSD a couple of weeks ago and it's not only buckled my PC use with me trying to not fill it up it's also doing Windows no favouors with lack of space. Takes me back to the horrible Win98 20-40GB HDD days.
I think if people can really limit what their data use is SSD is great technology but old habits die hard for me and moving from 2x1TB HDDs is not easy.
SSD has been a bit of a failure for me but I don't blame SSD as it's down to me miscalculating what I need and want but more importanlty how I do things.
For now it's a matter of shortcuts to my other drives which I had to stop falling off to sleep (it was crashing or slowing Windows Explorer too) as they're set to do in power settings.
SSD = high performance at a cost. Like most things, then :p
In a desktop you'd surely use extra conventional hard drives for media storage (and use a smaller SSD as a boot drive), and in a laptop you could achieve a similar thing by using an optical bay convertor for a mixed SSD/hard drive combo. Can an ultrabook take a conventional 7/9mm SSD drive or are they a different format (like the Macbook Air)?
Not everyone is prepared to work with two drives so I think for some having a 512GB SSD for everything would be handy if they don't have large storage needs. I agree that 512GB isn't quite big enough as I'd want to move a decent chunk of video/photo files onto the drive as well as games to speed up photo and video editing applications for now I'll probably stick with a small 64GB SSD.
I think for a laptop this is ideal though as increasingly smaller machines are dropping them and for those that have them, I think it's a more practical solution to have effectively an all in one data solution with the 512GB SSD and keep the optical drive.
John
But like I said, it's not at a viable price point for that amount of storage. It's not bad £ per GB in line with other deals, but it's not big enough to warrant the cost for most people (going down the same lines as Fujioka's post here - if you're using an SSD there has to be some level of compromise.) My MBA only has about 10GB free so it forces me to think on my feet and I can never be arsed to plug my external HDD in, but if I was still using a normal sized laptop the optical drive would have long gone by now if I wanted the speed of an SSD but the benefit of extra cheap storage that a mechanical hard drive gives.
I would think 256GB is the break point for most people at the moment between having enough room for apps and some media, and putting everything on your device for the sake of it. Once the 512GB drives halve in price they'll be more viable for most people but like you say yourself, it's a bit of an awkward capacity of drive.
I appreciate I don't represent everyone and some people will be willing to pay this price for a device this size, but like others have said, I doubt anyone's actually read this thread and bought one. Bit similar to iPads/MP3 players etc. - I wouldn't personally buy a 64GB iPhone because it's not an effective price point for the device's intended use, I'd rather sync the device more often rather than trying to carry around everything that I own. If your laptop is your only machine then fair enough, but in all honesty, how many times do you use the optical drive these days? I somehow killed the one in my old Macbook by leaving FM09 in there for 2 years as I never needed to change disk for anything else. Would have thought the main users of optical drives in laptops these days are students in uni halls without a TV who want a DVD player (and they're probably downloading everything anyway :)).
Edited By: Bossworld on Jul 06, 2012 09:21