GameLinxx
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 Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:13 am Post subject: HDD vs SSD |
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I have been installing, and removing regular hard drives for 12 years now. I know that HDD drives have moving parts, for example, the spinning disk in the core, and the reader that constantly moves back and forth on the HDD. The average life span of an HDD is 3 years, and 5 years with a good hard drive, in my experience.
This, as you know, is what eventually destroys your HDD, because of the moving parts, the heat from the friction it makes with the electricity heating it up, plus the trauma from the moving hard drive vibrating everything around it, increasing the possibility of solder crack from movement.
Your regular HDD drive cannot withstand trauma, in the form of dropping your laptop, or hitting your computer tower. This will cause your HDD to stutter or stop responding to your motherboard.
The advantages of an SSD are great, but limited. The SSD has no moving parts, creates much less heat than HDD drives, and boot up faster by at least 30 seconds by a benchmark test. Why do they work faster? Since they have no moving parts, they are a direct data stream going into your computer or laptop, therefore giving you instant data reading. Nothing has to move to get the data, so you get results, as fast as your program will run.
What are the dis-advantages? SSD is the same makeup as a flash drive. If you write constantly to your flash drive, it will develop bad blocks and eventually run out of space and will be useless. Manufacturers are giving SSD drives a 2 year warrenty, and this is even too much to some people, because they believe it will fail before that, with constant use in a computer or laptop.
An SSD has an average of 10,000 writes per block of space, so if you are running programs that write to your hard drive every day, expect a failure before your 2 year warranty is up. Truth be told, at the time of this post, these hard drives are new, so we really don't know how reliable they are until we hear news of the failure of consumer SSD drives. You can see a benchmark test on Youtube at the link below.
HDD vs SSD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf_QS3mZsyU
PS3 HDD vs SSD
http://gear.ign.com/dor/articles/984797/ps3-hd-speed-test-video/videos/gear_ps3hhdtest_051609.html
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