Comments on: SSD pros and Cons from Allegiance Tablet PC Experts

By: JKK’s SSD week. | UMPCPortal - The Ultra Mobile Computing reference site

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:09:14 +0000

[...] read the theory, now hear the reality about how SSDs work together with modern netbooks and [...]

By: Brook Zerihun

Brook Zerihun — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:33:34 +0000

but are the advantages of SSD being over looked, no moving parts reduced heat, reduced power consumption, I look for features that I can use, not the trends, Intel is jumping on the SSD bus, and that means lower prices, I found 128GB for my MBP for under $399.99 and that has some respectable speed. That could be one good thing from all theses companies going SSD route.

By: jkkmobile

jkkmobile — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:12:32 +0000

His post is good but his write cycle numbers are from the past…

… nowadays we have SSDs with write cycles of millions.. so wear is not a problem anymore.

By: ProDigit

ProDigit — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:09:51 +0000

Well,Intel already has drives with writes of upto 120MB/s. That’s nothing you’ll find with harddrives.
They managed to get these speeds, AND reduce the write lag or latency by creating a more effective controller.
Samsungs controller which has been used for both the SSD’s MLC and SLC market in nearly every SSD that exsists, has it’s flaws in MLC drives.
Intel found a way to go around the issue and will be delivering 32Gb to 120GB with writespeeds from 75MB/s upward and readspeeds of well over 200MB/s!

So I’ll have to disagree here.