Solid State Hard Drive Versus HDD

[PV5150]

Intel's Robson Technology claims to increase system responsiveness, make multi-tasking faster, and extend battery life for the new Santa Rosa platform. We have provided you with a small taste of what's to come. Please take into account that the OS itself has a lot of influence on boot times as well when watching. Care to comment? Feel free to do so below...

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[cybermaniac]

Intel's Robson Technology claims to increase system responsiveness, make multi-tasking faster, and extend battery life for the new Santa Rosa platform. We have provided you with a small taste of what's to come. Please take into account that the OS itself has a lot of influence on boot times as well when watching. Care to comment? Feel free to do so below...

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well tbh, im hoping that they will come to the point that u store 512mb or so of neccesary system files on the NVRAM section of the disk, and only spin up the disk when they need to get uneccesary files (eg fonts) as that would SIGNIFICANTLY boost startup times

 

[PP Mguire]

I still think the solid state will be ALOT better. Less heat, less time, faster, what more could you ask for.

 

[NugentS]

I still think the solid state will be ALOT better. Less heat, less time, faster, what more could you ask for.

I have a 32GB SSD. Initial testing shows a 33% decrease in Vista boot times..... but thats the only test I have done.

Sean

 

[!TIMMY!]

But are they realiable? isnt it harder to recover lost data from one of these than against an normal HD?

 

[PP Mguire]

It would seem to me like itd be the same.

 

[Warzone]

hmmm a 404 on the intel redirection and the youtube video has been removed due to use violation...lol

 

[nathan]

I have a 32GB SSD. Initial testing shows a 33% decrease in Vista boot times..... but thats the only test I have done.

Sean

What SSD is it though?

 

[Rastalovich]

Multitasking faster ! Yes !

 

[SwaleSmith]

seems a good idea to me SSD is to expensive for hit and miss performance and not enough GB space, so unless SSD's get cheaper this could be a player

 

[Pseudonym]

They're bound to get much cheaper and faster in the next year. I'll probably invest quite late in the season though, as much as I like having the shiny new stuff, I don't have the monies to be spending on beta products.

The size should increase soon too. I'e just read about the new SDXC cards that can take up to 2TB. It seems far too big to me, but I'm sure someone will want it. Source

 

[monkey7]

That SDXC... Wow. I'd sure as hell like 5-10 of those on the next generation of s-ata cables In a 3.5" housing with builtin RAID5 controller ofc.

 

[Hyper]

Systems with Santa Rosa and Robson technology are expected to launch in the first half of 2007.

 

[nathan]

yeah i seen that, guessing on 2009?