Top Solid State Disks and TB Drives Reviewed

Lucas123 writes "Computerworld has reviewed six of the latest hard disk drives, including 32GB and 64GB solid state disks, a low-energy consumption 'green' drive and several terabyte-size drives. With the exception of capacity, the solid state disk drives appear to beat spinning disk in every category, from CPU utilization, energy consumption and read/writes. The Samsung SSD drive was the most impressive, with a read speed of 100MB/sec and write speed of 80 MB/sec, compared to an average 59MB/sec and 60MB/sec read/write speed for a traditional hard drive."

Re:Reliability

[ColdWetDog]

They will sell these by the case to the antarctic research station and mountain climbers. They go through normal hard drives like pez because of the cold and low air density. How is the power consumption compared to rotating drives?

I've been climbing mountains for some 30 years. I've never thought to bring a hard drive with me. I've dragged around quite a passel of other odd and heavy things, but I appear to be missing something again ...

Re:Waiting for low-end drives

[skolima]

A 32MB would be enough for installing any current OS and still have some room for personal files to carry along on a trip.

We're still in 2007, riiight?

Re:Waiting for low-end drives

[jherrick]

32MB would be enough for installing any current OS

Okay, Bill Gates.

Re:Then don't fill the drive

[plague3106]

Easy: don't let the drive become mostly full.

Ya, becuase THAT is realistic in the real world...