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Intel's new 34nm SSDs cut prices by 60 percent, boost speed
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bobbdobbs
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Good news for people wanting faster lower cost SSD, especially for those looking to get a nice SSD system ready for win7 or just like having super fast storage. clicky_________________Finally joined Flickr
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veato
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I wonder if they still suffer from that fragmenting issue. I heard it gets so bad they actually perform worse than a HDD. he last I heard Intel were working on a defrag that resolved the issue as the version of defrag we all currently use on our HDDs makes matters worse on SSD.
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I've seen loads of reviews recently where SSDs were outperformed by HDDs - crap controllers or something, maybe?  _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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gavomatic57
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It's usually the OS that causes the problem - Vista and Leonard aren't really optimised for SSD use, Vista SP3 and Snow Leonard probably will be though. I'd imagine the linux kernel is already there.
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The problem is often, especially for the cheaper / consumer SSDs, that they use a slow or outdated controller chip, which throttles the performance as well.
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l3v1ck
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I wonder if they suffer the same performance hit as the old ones when you've used them a few times.
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With zero latency, fragmentation shouldn't be an issue as there's no heads having to move to piece the files together.
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No heads to move, but you have the page and row access times to consider. I've never seen figures for them, but perhaps they're quite high? If a file is fragmented across many rows, then the transfer rate might easily be 90% slower than the optimum. _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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