Solid stae hard drive questions

etpm · 2012-12-20T16:45:21+00:00

This is metal related. Hard drives do contain metal. Anyway, I need to put yet another drive in a laptop and the thread a while ago about mechanical hard drives made me think that maybe a solid state one would be better. More expensive I know, but I want to avoid yet another drive swap. So, how do the two compare? Are the solid state drives faster? Slower? Do they have any problems unique to them I should look out for? Are there better brands? I'll be looking online too but it's always nice to get real world opinions from folks who have opinions I trust. Thanks, Eric

Dec 20, 2012 23 Replies

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Jim Wilkins 13 years ago

I have a 2.2GHz dual-core Dell D630 here with an old,

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clare 13 years ago

It will not make any significant difference in speed where the hard drive is not the bottle-neck. USUALLY booting will be enough faster that you can notice it - but until you get into heavy database use or opening LARGE files, you will not see much difference in normal operation over a good SATA drive with a decent sized cache.

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clare 13 years ago

Generally speeking, hibernation is a "broken" feature - AKA, a "BUG" on most systems.

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Michael A. Terrell 13 years ago

Real fun is doing that test on military radios installed in a vehicle, and the entire vehicle is on a huge shock table.

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