Comments on: Warning: Your SSD will slow down like a 3.5-inch floppy http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/09/warning-your-ssd-will-slow-down-like-a-35-inch-floppy/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:06:18 -0500 hourly 1 By: Optimized SSD MySQL Database Engine Announced http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/09/warning-your-ssd-will-slow-down-like-a-35-inch-floppy/comment-page-1/#comment-1065822 Optimized SSD MySQL Database Engine Announced Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:26:32 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=88833#comment-1065822 [...] Warning: Your SSD will slow down like a 3.5-inch floppy (crunchgear.com) [...] [...] Warning: Your SSD will slow down like a 3.5-inch floppy (crunchgear.com) [...]

]]> By: Toshiba to roll out world’s first notebook with 512GB SSD http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/09/warning-your-ssd-will-slow-down-like-a-35-inch-floppy/comment-page-1/#comment-1019536 Toshiba to roll out world’s first notebook with 512GB SSD Thu, 14 May 2009 08:39:46 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=88833#comment-1019536 [...] are picking up steam in the computer market (although there were some bad news), and so it comes as no surprise that today Toshiba announced the world’s first laptop [...] [...] are picking up steam in the computer market (although there were some bad news), and so it comes as no surprise that today Toshiba announced the world’s first laptop [...]

]]> By: Steve http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/09/warning-your-ssd-will-slow-down-like-a-35-inch-floppy/comment-page-1/#comment-1018622 Steve Tue, 12 May 2009 07:52:29 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=88833#comment-1018622 Speed degradation on SSDs has nothing to do with non-contiguous data. See the article on Anandtech.com for a discussion of the problem. Speed degradation on SSDs has nothing to do with non-contiguous data. See the article on Anandtech.com for a discussion of the problem.

]]> By: Tony http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/09/warning-your-ssd-will-slow-down-like-a-35-inch-floppy/comment-page-1/#comment-1018024 Tony Sun, 10 May 2009 15:45:26 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=88833#comment-1018024 Guys, can you please stop calling this technology "fairly new ", DEC had this underlying technology shipping to corporates in the late 80s... The technology is faster because it doesn't have moving parts (no head movement, etc.) to satisfy I/O, a file management system increases degradation due to file placement not remaining contiguous... Guys, can you please stop calling this technology “fairly new “, DEC had this underlying technology shipping to corporates in the late 80s… The technology is faster because it doesn’t have moving parts (no head movement, etc.) to satisfy I/O, a file management system increases degradation due to file placement not remaining contiguous…

]]> By: Paul http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/09/warning-your-ssd-will-slow-down-like-a-35-inch-floppy/comment-page-1/#comment-1017887 Paul Sat, 09 May 2009 19:33:53 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=88833#comment-1017887 i agree!!floppy all the way!! i agree!!floppy all the way!!

]]> By: Southpaw http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/09/warning-your-ssd-will-slow-down-like-a-35-inch-floppy/comment-page-1/#comment-1017877 Southpaw Sat, 09 May 2009 18:49:40 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=88833#comment-1017877 You use defrag for HDD and you use trim for SDD Trim will be part of windows 7. http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=10 You use defrag for HDD and you use trim for SDD Trim will be part of windows 7.

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=10

]]> By: rcesm http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/09/warning-your-ssd-will-slow-down-like-a-35-inch-floppy/comment-page-1/#comment-1017873 rcesm Sat, 09 May 2009 18:35:47 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=88833#comment-1017873 Bring back the 3.5 Floppy! Bring back the 3.5 Floppy!

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