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   #10. Posted at 11:21 AM on Mar 10th 2008, Edited at 11:24 AM on Mar 10th 2008 Edit   Reply
axeman
Yup, look at any real-world benchmarks with SSD's.. While the random seek times are phenomenal, they still pretty much suck, because the sequential read speed is average, and write speed blows. Access time plays only a minor part in the performance of disk-drives when it comes to regular every-day computing.

edit: meant to be a reply to #6
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#10, Very true. For now. SSDs are riding Moore's Law, and they ha...  :  UberGerbil  (#12)  «
#10, If you had a file server that had a huge pile of small files...  :  odizzido  (#14)  «
#14, Web servers, which are pretty much entirely read-only wit...  :  UberGerbil  (#15)  «

   #4. Posted at 08:50 AM on Mar 10th 2008 Edit   Reply
flip-mode
Does the idea of keeping 500 gigs of data on a laptop seem crazy to anyone else? Theft for one, loss for another would make it a liability. At least make sure to have an external drive to back up to.
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#4, Perhaps this 500gb 2.5" drive is the backup drive. These dri...  :  GodsMadClown  (#8)  «
#4, No. "It's a laptop, I can't have that much data on it" is th...  :  Peldor  (#9)  «
#4, Putting 2.5" drives in a server is no longer a crazy idea. I...  :  UberGerbil  (#13)  «

   #5. Posted at 09:05 AM on Mar 10th 2008 Edit   Reply
emorgoch
Only on sequential reads. Otherwise, seek times with random I/O will kill it.
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#5, Yes, for all of those server loads you'll be putting on your...  :  Nitrodist  (#6)  «
#6, 2.5 inch drives are often used in servers.  :  shank15217  (#11)  «

   #1. Posted at 08:31 AM on Mar 10th 2008 Edit   Reply
Shinare
Gah... need 7200RPM please.

After moving my lappy from 4800rpm to 7200rpm the difference was so noticeable that I will not even consider anything slower than a 7200rpm drive from now on.
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#1, Needs SSD.  :  Spotpuff  (#2)  «
#1, It's probably still relatively fast because the platters are...  :  grantmeaname  (#3)  «
#3, I think "not as slow" is better wording than "still relat...  :  DASQ  (#7)  «
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