Internal Solid state disk - SSD

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What would you trade you mechanical hard drive for? One that didn't make any noise? Or could not be damage it by dropping it?

Memory sticks or USB Pen drives have been around for some time. And Solid State Disk has been a dream for a long time that has now came true and the size is large enough and cheap enough to accommodate your Operating System.

With a Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) of over 1.5 Million hours and NO moving parts this is the wave of the future today!

And they are fast! Just about as fast as the memory in your computer. Can you say instant on? Or very close to it considering how long it takes to load a Operating System from a mechanical hard drive regardless of the speed.

Think about it - is my hard drive running? Don't know can't hear the platters spinning! What happens if you drop it? Uhhhhh, nothing! Well if you dropped it from the third floor of you office building it wouldn't be worth much but if it slipped out of your hand and hit the floor it would not break!

So what good is this new technology? What can I use it for?

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What is the storage capacity of you laptop hard drive? 40 gig? 60? You can get a 128 Gig drive for almost the same price as a replacement 60 gig hard drive. The one I am reviewing is a 2.5 inch 32 gig SSD and it sells for less than $250. I know you can get a 500 gig 3.5 inch SATA hard drive for you desktop for less but it has some moving parts, this does not have any moving parts! Less heat, no noise, less chance of failure. And as time goes on the size of a SSD will increase and the price will come down.

As with all new technology the early models have problems and are expensive, but as with the SATA hard drive the technology development is moving very fast and I do think that soon you will be able to buy a 500 Gig Solid State Disk for less than $250 in the very near future.

The possibilities are limitless, install your OS on the drive, pull it out of your desktop and put it in your pocket, or your laptop computer case and no one can tamper with your data. Real 'Plug and Play'.

Or maybe you are an experimenter, have two or three drives with different Operating Systems loaded on each one, power down the computer and change the drive, power up and your back in business. This is a possibility now with the what is called a removable drive tray but it requires time to take the current drive out of the tray and put in the new one taking a chance on damaging the drive connectors.

Featured: OCZ  32Gig OCZSSD2-1C32G Internal Solid state disk (SSD) By Newegg.com (note - place you mouse pointer over the image to view a larger image).


 
General  
Brand OCZ
Series Core Series
Model OCZSSD2-1C32G
Device Type

Internal Solid state disk (SSD)

Dimensions  
Width 3.95"
Depth 2.76"
Height 0.38"
Weight 0.17 lbs.
Expansion / Connectivity  
Form Factor 2.5"
Capacity 32GB
Interface Type SATA II
Features RAID Support
Performance  
Max Shock Resistance 1500G
Sequential Access - Read 120-143 MB/se
Sequential Access - Write 80-93 MB/se
MTBF 1.5 million hours

Consider this:

When the size of the SSD reaches 500 gig and you have three of them you could do a RAID array with a Tetra byte of storage. And with 1.5 Million hours between failures you would never have to buy another drive, unless of course a Tetra byte of storage became to small... :)

Read this article about using this type of drive in your computer. If you are thinking about using this type of drive in your laptop read this article about my laptops.

Note:

When I wrote this article in Dec of 2008 SSD had been on the market for about six months. Now a year later and Intel has jumped in to the game. The new Intel drives are faster, larger, but as of yet not cheaper.

The drive featured in this article is still going strong and has not caused me any problems, I have since upgraded three laptops with SSD IDE drives (which are getting harder to find everyday) and none of those drives have caused me any problems. However one drive did cause me problems read the review here.

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