Solid State Drive
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- detritus0
No. SSDs are made out of 102% dichronic multi-phase carbonium in a 4-fold heteromunculus lattice matrix - projected lifespan is about 4% longer than the anticipated age of the universe.
Of course that shit's never going to fail.
its technology, man - do you not get it?
- animatedgif0
> If you use one of these, do you need a backup?
Oh for fuck sake yes.
Physical hard drives *usually* when they're on their way out you'll notice your computer fucking up sometimes but you can *usually* get most of your data off before total failure in case there is some files that have missed your current backup schedule.
SSD drives when they fail they pretty much fucking fail. Your machine will freeze, you'll reboot and it wont see a drive anymore, everything will be gone and no chance of recovery at all.
Furthermore what sort of fucking question is "do I need backups" anyway, in 2014... when a 2TB drive costs less than $100.
- monospaced0
A little off topic. If I don't want to go through the bother of swapping an old disc drive to a solid state, does an external SSD function just as well as an internal? Would I benefit from booting from an external?
- orrinward20
@boobs I've used a Seagate hybrid a while back (500GB) and it was reasonable. A definite improvement on my 7200rpm but nowhere near my current 512GB Crucial M4.
I believe hybrids are less reliable though and with SSD costs coming down it may not be worthwhile.
- microkorg0
mono,
there's not many external SSD's out there. you may be better getting an enclosure and slapping an SSD in there.
recently I've been looking at getting an enclosure for an mSata SSD and putting a wee mSata in there for a truly pocketable external ssd.
You can also get twin drive RAID mSata enclosures!Yes it'll be pricier than a normal drive but id like something small that I can velcro to the lid of my laptop when im working or music making with my laptop on my lap (where I dont want a drive sitting there too or on the sofa next to me dangling down).
- I'm not looking for portable, just something not IN the computer. An SSD in an enclosure IS an external, right?monospaced
- I should clarify... for a desktop computer that doesn't move around.monospaced
- microkorg0
^ mono yeah an enclosure is a box you put a drive in and allows you to connect via USB to use it as an external drive.
Enclosures are fairly cheap, the big spend will be the SSD. Mind you saying that they aren't that crazy these days.
I think that cheaper enclosures can throttle the speed available for transfers so prob get what you pay for.2.5" Enclosure
http://www.ebuyer.com/173389-sta…or
Then get an SSD from Crucial
This was the mSATA enclosure i'd been checking out
http://www.lindy.co.uk/component…And again id grab a msata from crucial
e.g 480gb £170
http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/ssd…- Right. I know... my question was about whether it would be as good as an internal, could I boot from it well?monospaced
- For example, would USB 3.0 negate the benefits of the SSD?monospaced
- SSD with Thunderbolt is fastest.CyBrainX
- microkorg0
Mono, if you have USB 3.0 then the transfer speeds will be just as good if not better.
If you got a decent sized one you could put the OS on there and use it as your computer. I saw a review of a 256gb flash drive from a kid on youtube that did that.
- autoflavour0
Just had a 480gig Kingston ssd arrive and am currently cloning. Will let u know how it goes
- detritus0
Follow the lessons learned by the big cloud providers (Facebook, et al) and put as much of your current and working stuff on SSD as you can afford, then everything else like archive files or none-critical working files on slow spinning disks.
They don't even really need to be 7,200RPM.
- autoflavour0
ok, just performed live for 9 hours with it..
everything was amazing. super fast, no dropped frames.
- autoflavour0
havent got down to any work yet, but general usage of the computer seems massively improved. everything opens super quick
internet seems faster.
- pango0
yes
- pango0
semi short answer.
every drive will fail eventually.
- Weyland0
fuck yes ... if it fails, it's much harder to recover files than a regular HDD and it will not warn you by slowly starting to buzz or return the occasional error, it will just stop dead in it's tracks
if your SSD uses TRIM, chances are even slimmer you can get anything back http://techgage.com/article/too_…
your data should always be in two places anyway :)
- boobs0
Yeah, well, I have my documents backed up to the cloud. So really, what I have on my computer is the System Software, and the Applications. But, yeah, that would be a hassle to re-install.
- boobs0
I was hoping I could cut some corners.
- every drive will fail, just keep settings and data backed up, system and programs can be downloadedWeyland
- Is your data worth less than a backup drive? If so don't bother.animatedgif