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kutulu · 01-27-2009, 09:06 AM

braisler: The read/write thing is true but IMO, overemphasized. If you take an 80GB MCL SSDHD it can last for about 10,000 write cycles. This is for each part of the drive. From what I understand, your capacity would decrease over time as parts of the drive die. However, it would take a long time to go through 10,000 write cycles. If you wrote/erased 20GB/day that would take 40,000 days (109 years) to use up the capacity.

From the benchmark tests I've seen, the SSD's are faster but there are some issues with teh SATA controllers on the cheaper MLC SSDs. The more expensive Intel ones are great, but they cost like $500. I think I might end up going with either a VelociRaptor as a boot disk or just getting two WD 640GB Black Editions in Raid.

01-27-2009, 09:06 AM	#6 (permalink)
kutulu Junkie	braisler: The read/write thing is true but IMO, overemphasized. If you take an 80GB MCL SSDHD it can last for about 10,000 write cycles. This is for each part of the drive. From what I understand, your capacity would decrease over time as parts of the drive die. However, it would take a long time to go through 10,000 write cycles. If you wrote/erased 20GB/day that would take 40,000 days (109 years) to use up the capacity. From the benchmark tests I've seen, the SSD's are faster but there are some issues with teh SATA controllers on the cheaper MLC SSDs. The more expensive Intel ones are great, but they cost like $500. I think I might end up going with either a VelociRaptor as a boot disk or just getting two WD 640GB Black Editions in Raid. Last edited by kutulu; 01-27-2009 at 09:10 AM..