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[Bumblebee]

Any good?

I saw the 64 gb one advertised and how uber fast it was... the thing is for me is that all of the flash drives ive had (probably not exactly the same) have died within 2 years.... think it would be a good idea to wait several years for this technology to become common?

[SoulWind]

well solid state hard disks are substantially worse performing then a good regular hard disk at this point.

Their advantage is no moving parts + lower power consumption + low access times (a spinning HD is ~9ms, where as SD has none) which means that a solid state drive can potentially boot faster with windows, but if you copy files, it is slower.

I have also seen that their reliability is not that good as of yet.

Waiting would be the best bet IMO, they will be much better in a few years.

[Ezekiel]

What he said ^^^

The only real practical use for them is in products such as tough books and such, where the product is designed to be thrown around to a point where a platter drive just wont do the trick.

Other then that, they way to expensive to justify the meger at best performance boost you'd get...

Invest in a 10,000 rpm raptor drive, or the newer 20,000 rpm velociraptor drive and call it a day.

[SoulWind]

What he said ^^^

The only real practical use for them is in products such as tough books and such, where the product is designed to be thrown around to a point where a platter drive just wont do the trick.

Other then that, they way to expensive to justify the meger at best performance boost you'd get...

Invest in a 10,000 rpm raptor drive, or the newer 20,000 rpm velociraptor drive and call it a day.

err, velociraptor is still 10k rpm, its just at a 2.5" form factor :P

[Ezekiel]

err, velociraptor is still 10k rpm, its just at a 2.5" form factor :P

But a 20,000 rpm version is due out soon.

[Bumblebee]

20,000 rpm.... mmmmmmmmmm