solid state drives

[mattr]

You'll be upgrading long before it's worn.

10 month old twins, i doubt i'll have the cash to do any upgrading before they start school (at 7 years old over here)

 

[highlandsflyer]

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We are really peeved we never had twins, as they are rife in the family!

Drives are amazingly cheap now, so I would imagine most of us will be discarding old platters once SSDs become long lived enough.

 

[drcarlos]

Keep an eye on UK Hot Deals, SSD's come up on great offer every week nearly. I am going to get a 256GB one (or maybe 2) when I can find one on a deal.

Carl.

 

[cce]

Spinning rust isn't going anywhere for a long time yet. Providing long term storage in volume is still its forte

 

[drcarlos]

As if by magic today: http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/crucial ... aily%2BHot

Carl.

 

[highlandsflyer]

Spinning rust isn't going anywhere for a long time yet. Providing long term storage in volume is still its forte

Ah, they said that about tape drives..

 

[cce]

Spinning rust isn't going anywhere for a long time yet. Providing long term storage in volume is still its forte

Ah, they said that about tape drives..

LTO is still pushing fair volumes, and squeezing ever-more data onto a cartridge

 

[highlandsflyer]

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Lol. I agree, just throwing my mind back to those dark days when we refused to give up on our floppies. If my wife is still happy with a floppy, what can be wrong with them?

 

[Skeelsie]

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except the index allows you to expand search to the content of files as well as name, which is dead useful....

It does yes but it munches 10% of your performance all day and usually an SSD is so quick it'll search for what you want in a couple of heartbeats anyway.

Depends on your requirements, it's useful if your a heavy Outlook user with a huge OST but I'd rather have the speed and control over the OS running riot.

I have no proven test data but reducing pointless read/writes can't do anything other than prolong the life of the disk.

Indexing can be very useful on a spinning disk but it makes most machines behave like something your parents purchased from PC World and "takes a little time to open sometimes, it'll settle down in a bit" that 30 minute boot misery and seven different versions of Antivirus software all running at once riddled with malware from when your father was looking on the t'internet.