Hard discs: since they are mechanical, they hadn't the scope to keep up; think how small and fast they would have to be by now to compair. There are 10krpm ones, at a price, and as stated, shock, movement and other physical disturbences still limit the reliable precision of moving parts; finer than high end watch movements. ----- Original Message ----- From: "'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries" <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 7:02 PM Subject: Re: Storage Options and Hard Drives.
One advantage of SSD is speed, especially compared to low-power laptop spinning drives. I was once working with a guy who went from launching vmware to working in windows in about 3 seconds on a MacBook Air with SSD. Not sure if that is typical but it was impressive. I think hard drives just haven't kept up with the rest of the computer architecture such that our CPUs idle waiting for the disk to spin. SSD is a step forward in re-aligning the storage speed with the leaps all the other subsystems have taken. At least SSD costs seem to keep on dropping every year. A quick check of Newegg points to about $US .60 per GB which, at one time, would have been considered cheap for a spinning disk. While the crossover for the cost of SSB per GB matching spinning disks is still years in the future, the differential isn't what it used to be. It's also a diminishing return where, eventually, you'll have more storage than you can fill for the life of the machine. I used to go through several hard drive upgrade over the life of a machine but now days I seldom run out, but maybe that's just me. CB On 9/15/14, 12:28 AM, Barry Hadder wrote: > SSDs aren't like thumb drives. They are much more reliable and don't > have that problem of write limits. > If you have the money for one, than that's great. But, you don't need > anything like this unless your doing something like audio or video > production. They are much more costly. > WD My Book or My Passport will do just fine for most people. If you > choose that option, don't git the version for Mac. it cost more and > all you need to do is git the PC version and reformat it. > > > On Sep 14, 2014, at 11:00 PM, Anita <silky...@gmail.com > <mailto:silky...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi List, > Can't SSD drives only be written to rewritten and read > from a certain number of times? If this is the case, does it quit > working after the last rewrite? For this reason, was wondering which > is the best drive to purchase? > Thanks, > Anita > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email tomacvisionar...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > Barry Hadder > bhad...@gmail.com <mailto:bhad...@gmail.com> > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Ż\_(?)_/Ż -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
