The hows and whys of SSDs « Icrontic Tech

In: Solid State Drive

25 Sep 2008

The two biggest deterrent factors are the cost of SSD’s and their life expectancy. As of today, an Intel X25-M SATA Solid-State Drive costs $US595 in quantities of 1000. Another very disturbing issue is the fact that regular defragmentation … Defragmentation is a cheap hack to sweep the performance limitations of mechanical drives under the rug. Defragging exists because there are performance penalties if the mechanical drive head needs to see files all over the disk. …




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