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Explain again why one would

unclesmrgol — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:32:07 -0400

Explain again why one would want to "defrag" an SSD-based raid array?

"Obviously it's not his

Jordan — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:12:39 -0400

"Obviously it's not his money & equipment, so I guess that justifies doing something as retarded as defragging SSD's... He should have actually tried defragging the array over & over until it failed, just to prove how long it takes to start getting defective cells/drives."

This.

SSD's are not gonna last as long as an HDD . Durr ?

Obviously it's not his money

Andre — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:57:57 -0400

Obviously it's not his money & equipment, so I guess that justifies doing something as retarded as defragging SSD's... He should have actually tried defragging the array over & over until it failed, just to prove how long it takes to start getting defective cells/drives.

BUZZ kILL

Drew — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:35:48 -0400

BUZZ kILL

solid state devices do not

boris — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:00:26 -0400

solid state devices do not require defragging & the constant read/write will wear the drive down more quickly than your classic hdd. an ssd uses the same ammount of power regardless if it is in use or not where as a regular hdd will use varying levels of power but will use less than a ssd in idle & sleep states. ssd's being no moving parts would be better for notebooks as they are more tolerant to physical damge

The joint venture CPUs by

bulldog64 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:09 -0400

The joint venture CPUs by IBM & AMD will kick Intel's Butt in 2010!

Sad, they can't get their

Truth in Ads — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:20:58 -0400

Sad, they can't get their spec right.

What else did they chince on? 2017MB != 2GB... was the copy of the DVD from a SSD to an SSD, across the RAID, a move? Spinning disk to solid? DVD to solid?

i want to work there!

jordan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:54:16 -0400

i want to work there!

Holy Mackerel! Very nice

David Kuan — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:58:00 -0400

Holy Mackerel! Very nice indeed!

Video: The fastest PC you may ever see

Paul Boutin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:45:47 -0400

What's holding back PC performance? Hard drives! The biggest bottleneck inside a desktop or laptop is the time it takes to read and write data to and from a disk. A solid state drive (SSD) with no moving parts is much faster, as MacBook Air owners will attest.

But why stop there? A Samsung marketing firm's IT guy linked 24 solid-state drives together as a RAID array, to see how much it would boost the performance of a standard PC. In the video below, the test unit opens all Microsoft Office apps in just half a second. Defragging the array takes only three seconds.

The best news is that SSD prices are starting to come down to the point where an SSD is a reasonable upgrade. Amazon sells a 128 gigabyte model for just over $300. The speedy Samsung model used in the video, though, still costs close to a thousand dollars.