Sorry I have not made myself clear enough. If I am not mistaken, it is recommended not to shut down you laptop at night, since XP optimizes the boot sequence (it's a sort of defragmentation of the boot sectors, I think). Now, I hear it do this every night. I doubt this is something optimal to do on a SSD. Is XP/other OS intelligent enough not to do this (and other similar stuff, this is just an example), if it's installed on a SSD?
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:19 AM > To: Thinkpad Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] RE : Intel is in the Laptop SSD hard drive business- > Marketto be Flooded Soon > > > On Jul 21, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Michael Geary wrote: > > >> From: Adrian Belu > >> No word on durability versus usage (and no word that OSs can > >> recognize these types of drives and adapt their functioning. > > > > I saw a blog post from some guy who says he has one of the current > > generation of Intel SSDs and it works fine for him: > > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=linus+ssd > > > > I didn't notice if he mentioned what OS he's running, so who knows, > > maybe he > > had to use some kind of custom written thing. > > > > -Mike > > > > I've got an Intel 160 GB SSD in a 17" MacBook pro that runs either > OS X or Vista 64-bit. The machine is faster with the SSD than with > the 7200 RPM drive delivered with it. Applications start much faster, > especially if you are running multiple things at once (say an antivirus > app is doing a scan). Apple sells the machine with a cheaper MLC > SSD. I'm thinking of replacing the DVD drive with a second Intel > SSD and moving the optical to an external box with a Firewire > interface ... > > In the case of bigger machines (rack mount servers), at least one > manufacturer will put at least 4 of the Intel SLC SSD drives into > a single server. Various Sun servers can run Solaris, Linux, or > various Windows Server versions. Note that these machines typically > use very smart SAS/SATA controllers with big battery backed memories, > etc. > Sun suggests the Intel SLC SSD for apps requiring fast IO > performance even though the SAS controllers and 10K RPM > 2.5" SAS hard disks perform way better than any normal 7200 > RPM drive (server or notebook). We have one of the Sun > servers that is now offered with the SSD drives (they weren't > available when we bought it). It is really quick with the SAS hard > drives. The down side of the SLC Intel SSDs is cost - the > lowest price I've seen for a 64 GB SLC version is about the same > as a 300 GB 10K RPM SAS 2.5" drive. > > I wish I could put an SSD like the Intel into my T43p but the PATA > interface prevents that - Intel only does SATA on their larger drives. > > Stuart > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
