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The customer said that it had progressively become slower
And yes, it was a laptop harddrive
If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."
That's impressive. I can't wait for SDDs to get cheaper. Laptop hard drives are mostly crap.
I'd like SDDs to get faster first.
Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.
If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."
I want them faster, bigger (capacity), smaller (size) and cheaper. So what's new?
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The only "reviews" I've seen are heavily biased to make the MTrons look good. Their reading is spectacular, no doubt. But almost nothing shows their write performance. Everybody knows it's slower, but nobody's publishing just how much. The anecdotes I've heard are "I put one in my laptop. I like that it's doubled or tripled my battery life, but things run slower. Document editing takes longer (it apparently saves a lot). And if I'm doing something where I end up paging out, forget it. If I don't have to worry about battery life often, then I'm staying with regular HDs."
For an extra $1000 dollars, I can think of plenty to improve system performance.
Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.
How could an SSD double battery life? Even a Travelstar 7k200 draws only 1.1 W idling and 3.0 W seeking. That's about a tenth of the power draw of even small laptops, especially considering that every drive will be idle most all of the time. Also keep in mind that SATA interface chips in hard drives (both rotating platter and SSD) draw almost half a Watt, so the advantage of the SSDs can't be that great even in theory.
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