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You don't want SSD, you want HDD
Posted by Tim Stork
Posted on 19/03/08 16:00
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You don't want SSD, you want HDD

More and more owners of notebooks with SSD want to swap their product for a notebook with a traditional hard drive disk, states research firm Avian Securities. SSDs are known as expensive, but fast. They also seem to have less capacity, but are saving real energy... So, what do you choose? The fast energysaver with lower capacity or the less expensive storager called a hard drive disk?

Researcher Avi Cohen from Avian Securities states that major manufacturers get twenty or thirty percent of their sold notebooks with SSD back. In the report Cohen also states that only two percent of the with HDD-equipped notebooks are returned. All these conclusions are based on a recent trip to Asia's computer manufacturers. No names are called.

Thirty percent of the with SSD-equipped notebooks are returned, but 10-20% are returned because of a malfunction. The rest is returned because of disappointing performances. Dell was the first manufacturer to offer SSD-equipped notebooks. The company didn't want to tell how many notebooks were returned, but in some cases (like when using an e-mailclient) HDDs work better than SSDs.

Currently Samsung and Dell are working on a new SSD... This new version will not have these problems, they promise.

What do you think?



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Once SSDs have had time to be developed to meet higher capacitys and had adequate R&D to fix any performance issues and such then come down in price closer to were HDDs are at then theyll become the norm. They techincally should be faster, quieter, better on power consumption, and more reliable in the long term then platter based HDDs, and who doesnt want that.
(Currently Samsung and Dell are working on a new SSD... This new version will not have these problems, they promise.)

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