It won't be to long until they drop down to $500 US dollars or even $100 US dollars.
Solid state hard disk increases the computer speed by about four times or more. Also they last about 10 years under server conditions. Under desktop or workstations they can last even more.
People think that overclocking their computers increases speed. As the processor's speed increases the magnetic hard drives still be at the same speed no matter how much you tweak your computer. The most bottleneck device in the computer is the hard drive.
Solid state hard disk increases the computer speed by about four times or more. Also they last about 10 years under server conditions. Under desktop or workstations they can last even more.
People think that overclocking their computers increases speed. As the processor's speed increases the magnetic hard drives still be at the same speed no matter how much you tweak your computer. The most bottleneck device in the computer is the hard drive.
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JasonL said:
Hmm I'll have to think about it. What brand/model is the drive?
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Even modern IDE drives usually give faster boot times than SCSI drives because you avoid having to wait for the extra BIOS to initialize. SS drives are just out of this world for speed 100x faster than magnetic drives is the standard figure often quoted so anything HDD intensive really gets a boost. But then you need to look at the capabilities of the bus you are running them off. It's all relative and it's all governed by physics... I dont see that SS drives will be getting much cheaper anytime soon.
AudioFreak said:
Actually I forgot about that init part. Usually once started, the scsi is faster. It's been a while since I last checked the speed differences though, so I'm not sure how big the actual speed diff is.
need a good old 486 boot time... those things would run through the bios in a second!
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Now you are debating on IDE vs SCSI. IDE makes hooking up hard drives very easy. SCSI is very hard to setup. You have to worry about terminating. Many controllers for SCSI are not compatible with today's motherboards and OS. To squeeze all the performance from a SCSI hard drive. You have to be very, very picky on a SCSI controller card. For IDE, just about any IDE controller that you can find can handle 100 megabytes or more.
USB version 2 or Firewire beats SCSI-I at a fraction of the price.
AudioFreak:
Now you are debating on IDE vs SCSI. IDE makes hooking up hard drives very easy. SCSI is very hard to setup. You have to worry about terminating. Many controllers for SCSI are not compatible with today's motherboards and OS. To squeeze all the performance from a SCSI hard drive. You have to be very, very picky on a SCSI controller card. For IDE, just about any IDE controller that you can find can handle 100 megabytes or more.
USB version 2 or Firewire beats SCSI-I at a fraction of the price.
AudioFreak:
Look into ASUS motherboards for much faster boot times. Don't forget to enable quick boot.
Thats what they say about CD-Rs in the 1990s. They were over $2000 US dollars back then. I e-mailed E-Disks about two years ago when they had only 9 gigabyte hard drives for $2000.
Electro said:
hmm from bitmicro:
E-Disk IDE 2.5-inch Data Sheet
http://www.bitmicro.com/products_edide_datasheet.2.5.pdf
E-Disk 2A11 2304 MB, Commercial Temp, No PowerGuard, NAND
E-Disk Part Number: D2A011B 002304 CNN
Mediagrif Discounted Unit Price: $2,348.00 Each
multiplexor, you can make your own solid state hard drive using standard SDRAM. When the computer is off, you have to design an alternate power source. A NiCd or NiMh batteries doesn't last very long and you have to have your computer on for a few hours so that they can charge. A super capacitor is a better energy storage than a battery. Their life time is very long than batteries.
Solid state drives will come down in price when the need or the want is high.
Solid state drives will come down in price when the need or the want is high.
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