Comments on: Intel SSDs Now At Best Buy

By: Cyang408

Cyang408 — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:56:47 +0000

i have the 40gig flavor and it's very nice. Boot up time went from 1 min to 12 secs, with apps loading up much much quicker. I use the drive strictly for windows 7 and apps. I've had it for about 3 months now and it's flawless.

By: Equalizer

Equalizer — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:08:46 +0000

Other than price for capacity there seems to be two big problems plaguing SSD's : 1) Some of the less expensive drives arenâ€™t particularly good on random write workloads, and 2) performance degradation over time. 3) there have been some studies done that question real world MTBF VS Manufacture Specs, with the real world use showing significant lower numbers.
These four issues need to be solved in order for consumer SSD's to become practical.

By: drive cloning?

drive cloning? — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:25:06 +0000

The cloning software/process is nice and all, but how many people have a drive in their system now with less than 40 or 80 GB of programs/data stored on it? Very few people. So this seems rather pointless for the vast majority. SSD's still need to come a long way in terms of price and capacity before being ready for the masses. I've been anxiously waiting for a couple of years since my first encounter. Very disappointed to see this evolution dragging so slowly.