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SSD VS HDD Drives

Anonymous
2017-11-25T19:56:50+00:00

Hello Everyone,

                I've read quit a few articles on the New SSD Drives and how quick and quiet they are, but none of these articles can tell you just how Reliable they are, VS the older well known platter disk drives, like the HDD SATA. So I thought I'd like to start a discussion here, and hear from you all that have used and have experience with this SSD drives and would or would not recommend them in say a Hi End Gaming Laptop or Desktop. Of course you would want to get the largest SSD drive you can afford like 512gb PCIe SSD (Boot) + 1tb 7200RPM SATA (storage)  just my thought.... WhatCha think?

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-11-25T20:22:04+00:00

    SSD stands for Solid State Disk, meaning that semiconductors are used to store the information, as opposed to magnetic platters.

    SATA stands for Serial AT Atttachment. It is a computer bus interface. SSDs can have a SATA interface!

    You probably want to compare SSD technology with magnetic platter technology. Both can fail. In my very limited experience, magnetic platter disks are less failure prone.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-11-25T21:43:00+00:00

    A friend gave me a 100GB SSD after he'd used it for a few years and I've used it for two years now. SSDs are so much faster especially when booting up. I don't even see the need for a 512GB SSD if you're willing to move data to terabyte HDDs which aren't that expensive anymore. So far I've had zero problems with the drive. The SMART report shows it's been powered on close to four years.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-11-25T20:56:13+00:00

    I also hear that you cant defrag & Optimize a SSD.

    It's not so much that you can't defrag an SSD but there is no point in defragging it. With a magnetic disk you can reduce access times a little bit by ensuring that data blocks are contiguous, thus allowing the read head to read the several blocks in one sweep instead of hopping from one fragment to the next and perhaps waiting for a full disk revolution.

    With SSDs this is pointless. Why? Because it takes exactly the same amount of time to read two adjacent blocks of data or else to read two blocks that reside at different addresses on the "disk".

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-11-25T21:34:35+00:00

    With SSDs this is pointless. Why? Because it takes exactly the same amount of time to read two adjacent blocks of data or else to read two blocks that reside at different addresses on the "disk".

    Awwww, I see now Frederik,

                But I'm still a little bit confused on that. Lets say you have a SSD with four blocks, and they are full. then on day you decide to Delete/Uninstall a very large program, and that program lies in-between the first and fourth block leaving two emptily blocks in-between the first and last block.  Wouldn't it have to read the First Block of Information and then Jump to the last block to find the rest of the information leaving the two middle blocks empty, and wouldn't that take extra time???...  and when you install a new program it will look for the first empty block to write in Correct?... and after time wouldn't you have little bits of program information all over the different blocks?...

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-11-25T20:45:15+00:00

    You probably want to compare SSD technology with magnetic platter technology. Both can fail. In my very limited experience, magnetic platter disks are less failure prone.

    Hi Frederik,

             Thank-You for your post, And yes that's exactly what I meant to say. I've been around PC's since the beginning, with my first Hard Drive being a whapping 10meg. Magnetic Platter Drive. And that thing must have weighed around 10 pounds... :) ... anyways that's the kind of information I'm looking at, and like yourself, I have only experienced the old Tried and True Magnetic Platter Disk Drives. I also hear that you cant defrag & Optimize a SSD.  And from what I've seen, it looks like a lot of the Hi End Laptops are going with the combo drives in them now a days.

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