Thread: Are Solid State Drives Better?

LOL I know shrimpy; have you got your new system yet?

Originally Posted by vertovian

AVCHD is a case in point - it is CRAP, and everyone buys the cameras - why? Cos it is NEW - daft.

Unfortunately its rubbish like this that devalues the rest of what you have to say.

I suppose you wouldn't have a defrag problem with a SSD.

Originally Posted by zandebar

LOL I know shrimpy; have you got your new system yet?

I am picking it up from my local guy next Thursday.

Cool Shrimpy: Is it Kick A%$ ? Pls post your spec in the hardware section TY.

MB your right! you don't have a defrag problem with SSD's, which is cool.

But I also think that SSD's won't rule the roost, for general storage traditional HD's are perfect.
I have loads of HD's that I have collected over the years. Us them for Backups and storage.

I have 10 that I am giving to a mate of mine who's a IT lecture; so his students can dismantle and destroy LOLOL....Well I did it when I studied IT...was a blast though..... What I couldn't get over was with the floppy, they shrunk in size but double in capacity, I found that wierd LOL

My first computer didn't even have a hard drive. Amstrad PCW9512. The OS was on a floppy disk ! it had a whopping 512Kb RAM. You had to keep swapping floppy disks if you wanted to save a document.

We've come a long way.

Like your writeup willyb!
especially the SSD practical application.

learned something there. thanks for sharing.

Originally Posted by Midnight Blue

My first computer didn't even have a hard drive.

You were so behind the times. Back in 1978, the first I worked on had 3 (or was it 5?) hard disk drives and about 20 actual hard disks - each containing eight platters and holding a massive total of 60MB (yes megabytes)

We had a pair of ICL 2904 minicomputers. The drives were EDS60s and the disks cost (then) around £3,000 each. And yes I was around when someone did drop one!

There's a photo of them (the same model, anyway) here The First Computer I Worked On - uGoto.com - the disk drives are the large washing machine sized things in the left foreground.

Very Joe 90.

Originally Posted by Midnight Blue

Very Joe 90.

As someone who has worn glasses from the age of seven, that's unsurprisingly what I got called at school