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Old 07-25-2008   #3 (permalink)
Mick


 
 

Re: Solid state disk makes vista slower not faster

Well I'm on a learning curve here but why are they being installed into
laptops then which wouldn't normally have a data disk?

Mick

"Steve Thackery" wrote:
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> I don't know the answer to your problem, but are you sure you've done the
> right thing?
>
> SSDs have a distinctly limited number of read/write cycles. I would think
> that normal paging file activity would eat up your SSD life very quickly
> indeed.
>
> Also, SSD isn't really faster. It has much lower seek times (because it
> doesn't actually need to move the head, obviously), but the data throughput
> is similar or slightly slower than a normal hard disk.
>
> I thought SSDs were not recommended as the system disk, but rather as data
> storage.
>
> Or have I misunderstood?
>
> SteveT
>
>
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