Comments on: Solid State Drives – Failures Of 20 to 30%? http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/03/19/solid-state-drives-failures-of-20-to-30/ Technology News, Reviews & How-To Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Ron Schenone http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/03/19/solid-state-drives-failures-of-20-to-30/#comment-51842 Ron Schenone Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:08:47 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/03/19/solid-state-drives-failures-of-20-to-30/#comment-51842 Hi GIM, Thanks for the info. :-) Hi GIM,
Thanks for the info. :-)

]]> By: GiM http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/03/19/solid-state-drives-failures-of-20-to-30/#comment-51841 GiM Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:46:04 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/03/19/solid-state-drives-failures-of-20-to-30/#comment-51841 FIRST, like for any new technology, I am expecting higher than normal failure rates, for a year or so, up to he moment the technology mature! However, speaking of 10 to 20 percent it is very vaguely. If it were 3% to 4% (meaning 25% margin error) maybe I can accept it, but a 100% margin error (from 10% to 20%) of "reality" does not sound real... Some extra info available at: http://www.cnet.com/8301-13924_1-9897828-64.html or http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9895986-7.html ! SECOND, if you study performances of actual available SSD versus HDD, except power savings evident for SATA I only (but not for SATA II !), soundless and a more life span for a device without moving parts, they are relatively close. True that some applications gain very much using SSD devices, but for general purposes, the differences are very small, maximum tens of percent. I can believe that 10% want money back, since can use HDD for cheap, but other advantages like soundless and reliability, make it doubtfully! THIRD, with some changes to better manage of internal operations for read and write - regardless of external communication standard, it is possible to speed up the performance of current technology few tens times !!! YES, theoretical more than 50x speedier for a 16-32GB SSD and could be 10 times more (for a total of 500x) for a 200GB SSD... The actual internal "management" of flash memories - likes as a FDD device - tries to be cheaper (we are already speaking about thousand of dollars), but can change for internal computer purposes. After all, these devices looks very much like a processor, they can reach the same speed and the same price! Hence, the future will be different... FORTH, could have new interface prescription for SSD devices, any actual SATA cannot match the theoretical SSD performance can reach... Actually, I am expecting to have a... SSD card that could be inserted direct to a PCI Express x16 slot, like an ordinary video card! See you! FIRST, like for any new technology, I am expecting higher than normal failure rates, for a year or so, up to he moment the technology mature! However, speaking of 10 to 20 percent it is very vaguely. If it were 3% to 4% (meaning 25% margin error) maybe I can accept it, but a 100% margin error (from 10% to 20%) of “reality” does not sound real… Some extra info available at: http://www.cnet.com/8301-13924_1-9897828-64.html or http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9895986-7.html !

SECOND, if you study performances of actual available SSD versus HDD, except power savings evident for SATA I only (but not for SATA II !), soundless and a more life span for a device without moving parts, they are relatively close. True that some applications gain very much using SSD devices, but for general purposes, the differences are very small, maximum tens of percent. I can believe that 10% want money back, since can use HDD for cheap, but other advantages like soundless and reliability, make it doubtfully!

THIRD, with some changes to better manage of internal operations for read and write – regardless of external communication standard, it is possible to speed up the performance of current technology few tens times !!! YES, theoretical more than 50x speedier for a 16-32GB SSD and could be 10 times more (for a total of 500x) for a 200GB SSD… The actual internal “management” of flash memories – likes as a FDD device – tries to be cheaper (we are already speaking about thousand of dollars), but can change for internal computer purposes. After all, these devices looks very much like a processor, they can reach the same speed and the same price! Hence, the future will be different…

FORTH, could have new interface prescription for SSD devices, any actual SATA cannot match the theoretical SSD performance can reach… Actually, I am expecting to have a… SSD card that could be inserted direct to a PCI Express x16 slot, like an ordinary video card! See you!

]]> By: Ron Schenone http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/03/19/solid-state-drives-failures-of-20-to-30/#comment-51840 Ron Schenone Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:11:27 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/03/19/solid-state-drives-failures-of-20-to-30/#comment-51840 Hello Jim in Virginia, There may not be a problem. It could be that one source is over reacting. :-) But like any new technologies, there re going to be some glitches at first. The one difference I can see between the thumb drives and laptop drives could be heat. Those cases get toasty inside sometimes. I personally think it is way to early to even judge SSD until more systems become available to the consumers. Regards, Ron Hello Jim in Virginia,
There may not be a problem. It could be that one source is over reacting. :-)
But like any new technologies, there re going to be some glitches at first. The one difference I can see between the thumb drives and laptop drives could be heat. Those cases get toasty inside sometimes.

I personally think it is way to early to even judge SSD until more systems become available to the consumers.

Regards, Ron

]]> By: Jim in Virginia http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/03/19/solid-state-drives-failures-of-20-to-30/#comment-51839 Jim in Virginia Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:17:34 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/03/19/solid-state-drives-failures-of-20-to-30/#comment-51839 Not being a techno-geek, I don't really pretend to understand why SSDs aren't more reliable. But aren't they really just larger versions of the flash drives we all carry as key fobs? My daughter accidentally put hers through the washing machine and the dryer and it still works like a charm! I know my highly mechanical hard drive in my laptop and desktop could never stand such a beating. What's the problem? Not being a techno-geek, I don’t really pretend to understand why SSDs aren’t more reliable. But aren’t they really just larger versions of the flash drives we all carry as key fobs? My daughter accidentally put hers through the washing machine and the dryer and it still works like a charm! I know my highly mechanical hard drive in my laptop and desktop could never stand such a beating.

What’s the problem?

]]> By: venzket http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/03/19/solid-state-drives-failures-of-20-to-30/#comment-51838 venzket Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:24:43 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/03/19/solid-state-drives-failures-of-20-to-30/#comment-51838 nice one ron, i just did another one saying the failure rates are wrong, i smell a SSD battle :D wp3.lockergnome.com/venzket nice one ron, i just did another one saying the failure rates are wrong, i smell a SSD battle :D

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