[olug] Laptop Hard Drive Size / Speed

[aric at omahax.com]

The drive I recommended was not a SSD.  It is a hybrid.

Basically a Momentus 7200.4 with 32MB of DDR and 4GB of Micron SLC NAND
flash.

I am guessing the issues with Linux and affordable SSD probably had to do
with MLC flash.

I am impressed with the performance of the drive.  From my experience it
out performs Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 desktop drives.  YMMV

> We had a drive die in a TabletPC before Christmas.  BestBuy had some
> relatively inexpensive SSDs - at the time, the price matched newegg.
> $99 for 500GB SSD is a sweet deal.   It is tremendously faster and
> well worth it.  Some SSDs required special configuration under Fedora
> at the time, but not intel.  There have been many firmware updates for
> intel drives that seem pretty important.
>
> So they are much faster and you will notice it, but computers are
> never fast enough.  The only problem i have seen is that fsck wants to
> run and fix a bunch of stuff which i never saw on spinning platters.
> But i have not noticed any missing files or other problems.  Maybe my
> swap is not as big as needed for hibernation or something other
> entirely than SSD.  i should make a swap file for hibernation instead
> anyway so i could hibernate one OS and boot another.
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