Hippy, cheers fella! have you been using the solid state drives yourself? what kinda stuff you been using them for? does it improve your work flow noticeably?
I'm curious to the practicalities and function, compared with the hard disk. Longer battery would be great....but is it noticeably better? I an handle waiting a split second for disk start up. Less heat generated would be good, my current/last one use to get hot as hell.
Agreed, it seems expensive at the minute (it's early-ish days i s'pose) so i expect a week after i buy one, it will cost half as much for twice the capacity.
sorry for all the questions, im just curious as to its worth in a laptop for the price.
thanks.
I don't use one myself but we are speccing new development machines so just did a bit of research with 10k versus SSD drives. I am definitely getting an SSD for my laptop or as the boot drive in a home desktop machine.
They are appealing for people moving around with laptops a lot since there's far less risk of data loss due to movement/drops/etc. The power consumption is significantly less than a 10k drive and I'm sure the heat is far less too. But cost is the major negative. Since you can only usually get one drive in a laptop and you'd want a sizeable drive 100gb+ you are looking at £500 for a drive that in SATA format would cost £50 or 10k maybe £150. For me, I want the speed so I am definitely getting one.. fuck the cost.
You might have a hard time justifying it to your boss though.
If you've only got a 5400rpm drive then moving to 7200 or 10k will be a nice boost.
@hippy
I don't use one myself but we are speccing new development machines so just did a bit of research with 10k versus SSD drives. I am definitely getting an SSD for my laptop or as the boot drive in a home desktop machine.
They are appealing for people moving around with laptops a lot since there's far less risk of data loss due to movement/drops/etc. The power consumption is significantly less than a 10k drive and I'm sure the heat is far less too. But cost is the major negative. Since you can only usually get one drive in a laptop and you'd want a sizeable drive 100gb+ you are looking at £500 for a drive that in SATA format would cost £50 or 10k maybe £150. For me, I want the speed so I am definitely getting one.. fuck the cost.
You might have a hard time justifying it to your boss though.
If you've only got a 5400rpm drive then moving to 7200 or 10k will be a nice boost.