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?

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 SSD 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).

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.

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