SSD Versus Traditional Magnetic Hard Drive

[DasFox]

I know that SSD drives are more costly then traditional magnetic drives, but how do the stack up compard to traditional magnetic drives, at this point how does the performance, reliability, and speed compare?

For my own personal computers I've yet to run into a problem, but as a tech working on people's system, I deal with drive problems all the time, especially segate drives on laptops, constantly croaking all the time, and I've been considering starting to put customers on SSD drives for their system for better reliability.

To me it seems like the quality in drives has taken a dive in the past 1-2 years, as the size increases, trying to maintain quality with the size, seems to be the issue that hinders us...

THANKS

 

[Denithor]

SSD drives are supposed to be able to notify you in some way before they fail and when they do start losing sectors it's a limited loss, not a complete failure. Plus they aren't as easily damaged by drops/shocks/etc.

But there's the whole JMicron controller issue with the current crop of MLC drives. Either go SLC (very expensive) or wait until early next year when the new updated controller is supposed to be released.

 

[DasFox]

Well they do seem to be the future until someone figures out something else, unless there is something beyond SSD...

 

[gba]

I am going to wait this one out a bit. it seems early.. innovation and price drops are most likely not too far off.