EliteSoldier112 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

lol one of my gaming PC's with just a 320GB HD can boot up in 30 seconds MAX. Wait a while till the drivers and technology for SSD mature. That's when they'll be useful for everyday use.

stgrenade64 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

ssd's are the way to go, but not now bec of the price. a guy above us could be true saying samsung and probably all other ssd manufacturers are holding back the speed (read/write) for them to sell old stocks of their old technologies. So they just make it just a lil faster than the raptors w/c is the real competition atm. This has been the norm

8309400 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

3 seconds to minutes for write latencies eh..well seems like SSD's are gonna suck as a main storage device for puters and the computer bottleneck will remain with this technilogy. I dunno why they put out lousy junk like that and call it innovation. HEY look people NO mechanical parts! but your computer will freeze for a couple minutes while u click an icon! thats fucking idiot technology. why dont they just liberate the DDR ram drive market instead of wasting time on ssds.

Downfromzero (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

You haven't done any intensive, or parallel writes then. You'd realize that the OS could lag for 3secs to a minute at a time, even in doing routine tasks. Any intensive writes, would destroy the user experience.

Downfromzero (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Prices are correct, however the only MLC SSD worth buying these days is Intel's, which has improved random write speeds and a wear-leveling controller to maximize the life of the disk (important for flash nand's). The 80GB Intel is around $600, but if you need that performance boost, it'll certainly give it to you.

JosoBCN (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

That comment clears up all need for any iq test.

serendipityuk (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Bulgarian isn't an international spoken language you twat. Get a fucking clue.

8309400 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

are ssd's fast yet? when are access time write speeds gonna get better!? the wait is gettin boring

slimanime (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

amazing samsung....

JosoBCN (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

He made the effort to write in a language most internet users may understand. What about you?