SSD BENEFITS
The first question that most ask when entering an SSD conversation for the first time is, “What makes them so special?” There are really a variety of answers for that question which will be different for each person. For a ASUS AP31-1008P Battery university student or any professional really, how valuable is the data on your laptop? I remember back when laptops Eee PC 1008P Battery first became popular (dating myself here I know) and I dropped my work unit with a 380 page report on the hard drive that took me weeks to compile. It then took me weeks to compile once again. Would that security alone be worth the price of an SSD?
Lets take a close look at some of the benefits of a solid state drive that might appeal to the consumer:
START UP SPEED – The typical SSD ACER AL10C31 Battery starts up in about 15 seconds compared to a hard drive which takes ACER AL10D56 Battery over a minute. In considering the value of your time, a typical person starts their computer 5 times a day which would be a savings of 3 3/4 minutes per day of just under a full day a year…waiting for your computer to start. What is a full day worth to you?
NO MOVING PARTS – An SSD has absolutely no moving LC.BTP00.130 battery parts, whereas a hard drive has a disk that spins as high as 7200RPM typically, or 67 miles per hour on its outer edge. As you can imagine, this becomes a natural concern for such things as battery life, temperature, and endurance. The hard drive is depicted on the left with SSD on the right.
Laptop computers are now sporting a new option that is going to amaze most as a result of the visible speed improvement and many will never really understand why.
Some will boast of how quick their new laptop starts ACER Aspire 1551 battery while others will read the fine print to see that there is this new thing called a solid state drive which has replaced the hard drive. The latter will most likely comprise of those reading this article and wanting to know what a SSD is and how it does what it does.
Our article today hopes to be the beginning of efforts to tackle many of the questions surrounding solid state drives and today’s report will examine what exactly makes the SSD so special in today’s world of ACER Aspire 1830T Battery computing. Follow-up reports will be added regularly to Aspire One 721 Battery tackle the many questions the ‘new SSD enthusiast’ has about this new technology and we encourage comments and questions which will, in turn, form the direction we follow in assisting with your SSD education.
THE BEGINNING
Solid state drives have been around for Dell Inspiron 1370 Battery many more years than we would believe and have traditionally been relied upon in military, medical and aeronautical fields before their first entry into the consumer space in 2007. By sheer coincidence, I was one of, if not, the first to receive a DELL W358P Battery enhanced laptop computer and remember writing a rather Dell MT3HJ Battery enthusiastic article which started things rolling for The SSD Review. Even then, I remember going from a computer that took an eternity to start to one that started in 27 seconds. I was amazed.
Although I would never pay such, that SSD pushed the selling price of that Dell XPS M1330 to just under $3500 and I went on to review other SSDs that were valued as high as $2500 for a 128GB capacity drive.
In fact, one company (from a very distant land) sent me a Dell Inspiron M301z Battery drive and made me promise not to send it back because of the probable implications of sending out such a high valued item at the time.
Today, we are seeing Ultrabooks that weigh less than 2.5 lbs are thinner than a pack of playing DELL U597P Battery cards with a super speedy SSD that is one-third the size of a business card and the height of a 25 cent piece. Click on the picture for a high res enlargement.
