From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex Stanley Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 10:15 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Solid State Drives
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , "Rick Archer" <rick@...> wrote: > > > Can this be used in either a laptop or a desktop? (I'm getting a > desktop.) > Should work just fine in a desktop. Judging from the pictures on the site, the case could hold a hard drive and an SSD right next to each other. But, why not just order the computer with one of the SSDs that they offer? That's what I would do. Here's a conversation I just had with a friend: He said: It's going to decrease your boot time, as well as loading times for most of your programs. The only area that SSD's aren't faster than mechanical are sustained write, mostly applications like Vodburner would be affected. Also to consider is the increased reliability. The estimated MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) is right around 1-2 million hours for most SSDs whereas Mechanical Drives are closer to 500,000 hours, with many failing before that threshold even. The major downside is that you don't have as much capacity for storage so the best advice there is to buy a SSD drive and have windows installed on it and use a high capacity mechanical drive for storage. Downside being that's going to add about $130 for a 1TB drive. I said: That's what I was thinking - just have the SSD for the system and maybe the applications if there's room. Have everything else on the mechanical drives. Aside from booting and opening programs, does the computer operate faster throughout the day with the system and apps on one of those? If not, then the only advantages would be faster booting and longer MTBF, right? I wonder if the task of moving everything from the old computer to the new would be complicated if I were to go this route. The setup of the new computer would no longer mirror that of the old.
