Solid State Hard Drives

[cbeerman]

Anyone out there had any experiences with (SSD) solid state hard drives?

I'm going to be using a netbook in my car to control an emulator PCM and I'm worried about vibration.

[LaiWongBao]

SSD's are great. I've been using one on my netbook for datalogging. So far so good, it is much faster than a regular 7200RPM drive, plus it will not get shock from any movement in the car.

The only down-fall I can see so far is that the size is very limited. It's expensive for what your getting, but hey at least you have peace of mind when using one.

SSD's are just the same as SATA2 drives, they plug in and show the same thing on your computer. You will not have any compatability issues or what-not.

I'm using it on my EEEPC 1000H.

[integraph]

SSDs are super reliable and will give you peace of mind if you're unsafe about vibrations! Just be careful and read the reviews of a drive before buying, some SSDs use older generation chipset and might be slower than others.

[gtpilot]

There are actually quite a wide range of choices and with that a wide range of quality and reliability. Even with the long life ratings (median time to failure) you still need to backup regularly. If you are purchasing a specific SSD find reviews for that model.

[pop_m]

Vibrations will not damage it. You can consider a SSD hard drive as a very performant memory stick. Keep in mind the technology was originaly developed for military purposes.
as advantages you have much higher performance and lower power consumption (compared to standard disks)
as disadvantages you have higher price/MB, and (as I found out from some reviews) performance decrease in time (something like at the beggining the SSD will write 1MB of data in 0.1 seconds, after several thousand read/write cycles, the time for writting the same 1 MB of data will increase)

[wait4me]

I like mine to. It is pretty fast compared to a disk type. They are getting cheaper as well so it is getting to where they are worth the investment.

[Iroll]

SSD is the only way to go for laptop. Mine takes allot of abuse, I don?t really worry about it since I installed the new drive. I did lose the old drive from abuse.

[tooseyman]

I've never tried a solid state drive,but seen several places on ebay selling them. Seem quite pricey though.

[jruibarroso]

i own a Acer Aspire One that came with an 8Gb SSD and linux , as soon i changed OS to Windows XP everything went bad ... SSD led stay for ever on and system hangs .. it seems windows is not able to deal with SSD because it can't generate random access positions for heads , so windows waits long time for this random position and it never apears .. till windows generate time out , system stills freezed.
Conclusion : in my opinion , SSD are not the best solution for OS with Windows

[betonel]

ssd

SSD disks are the future. Google uses them long time ago.

[DVB2100]

I've been using Intel X25-M G2 80GB drives. First one I bought almost on year ago for my home desktop computer and have since also bought similar units for my work desktop and laptop computers. They make a major difference how Windows 7 works, it feels slow with regular HD and very snappy with SSD.

I did have a failure with my home computer's SSD, it just started to disappear from the SATA-bus and made other weird things. Luckily I have a backup program running every day so I did not loose anything.

Intel is still a very good unit but also check OZC Vertex 2 (and some others that are using the same Sandforce-chipset) and also Crucial RealSSD C300. Later this year Intel releases new models that are faster and bigger capacity.

[robson82]

hi, this configuration is good for ssd drives

acer one +XP+ EWF(enhanced write file)
Using the Enhanced Write Filter (EWF) in Windows XP Embedded
other information, google accelerator ssd

[MYTO8]

I had a situation were i found vibration was stalling my conventional drive but it was in a desktop. I upgraded to a Intel ssd (there cheap one) and it solved the issues.
As for your purpose i use a laptop in a car all the time and never have any issues with it providing you don't drop it or forget its on the seat and brake hard as it will fall off seat(from experience).The seat or your knees is generally enough to prevent any issues.
As for using emulator, most emulators in car tuning i have used contain a non-volatile ram chip in which the vehicle bin file is loaded on to and the PC is only used when updating in real time but this process only takes seconds so it is not really hindered by vibration even when logging

[kourkoutas]

SSD is pretty fast and much more reliable than normal HDDs. The only cons is the price.

[Nev1337]

im using ssd for my os .. and its working faster than other hdd?s