Solid-state Drives

(this was a replay to a forum post about the new solid-state drives)

A lot of people don’t realize is about solid-state drives but they aren’t as impenetrable as people think they are.  It turns out that solid-state drive has an seemingly unlimited capability to be read over and  over again.  Even though they have the amazing ability to be read many times over they actually have a limited number of write cycles.  There was one story of a person who used a solid-state drive as the Windows swap file on his computer and burned it up very quickly.  It’s important to note that this technology could be really beneficial in creating computers that can be more difficult to damage.  It will be interesting to see what a life span of computers that use solid-state drives will be.  I am guessing that these machines will not be at the last anywhere close to the 10 years that some people see what their magnetic disk storage hard drives.  I guess that’s all dependent on how much writing you do to the drive and many users don’t do a considerable amount of writing so they may potentially even last longer than a magnetic drive.  I unfortunately am one of those people to wipe out their entire machine, delete applications, and add applications for testing quite often.  I found an article that explains in more detail the pros and cons of solid-state drives is a pretty interesting read actually.

http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=96