Why Size Matters For Your SSD Purchase

Vigile writes "Performance analysis on solid state drives is still coming into clarity as more manufacturers enter the fold and more of the drives find their way into users' hands. While Intel's dominance in the SSD market was once undoubted, newer garbage collection methods from Indilinx and Samsung are now balancing performance across the the major players. What hasn't been discussed in great detail yet is the effect that drive capacity can have on overall performance. Some smaller drives (64GB versus 128GB) will actually use fewer data channels from the controller chip and thus will have lower transfer speeds. The article compares drives using controllers from Indilinx, Samsung and Intel." Note that PCPer greedily spans this review over 12 pages. Next time maybe they can keep it down to something more reasonable.

Size.

[Anonymous Coward]

6.40 inches ought to be enough for anybody.

Re:Size.

[BronsCon]

I don't know whether to mod this troll, offtopic, flamebait, or funny, so I'm replying instead. Well played.

Re:The short story

[MoOsEb0y]

Price.

Re:Size.

[BronsCon]

Wow. I wasn't karma-whoring with that post, but I'll take it.

Now... the post I made below this one... THAT was karma-whoring.

Re:Pussy hurt much?

[SBrach]

That's why I boycott books. I mean the scroll format was obviously much better. Turning pages wastes time and saliva, plus there is the mortal danger of paper cuts. Until books and magazines come in a sensible scroll format I won't be buying either.

Super Star Destroyer

[egamma]

I think that in order to be classified as a Super Star Destroyer, it has to be at least 15km long. Although the salesman will tell you it's worth at least 20 regular Star Destroyers, the price you pay should be no more than the cost of 15 Imperial-class SD's. Also, be on the lookout for used SSDs. They may be infested with Conduit worms, affecting the ability of the SSD to fire its cannons.

Re:Size.

[Dragonslicer]

6.40 inches ought to be enough for anybody.

I know there's a "your mom" joke here somewhere...

Re:Super Star Destroyer

[je ne sais quoi]

They may be infested with Conduit worms

...or mynocks. They chew on the power cables you know.

Re:Size.

[Profane MuthaFucka]

That maneuver is called the "human Klein bottle."