RE: Re: SSD and VMWare Server 2... spicy!

[Paul Gordon <paul_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anyone tried the new Seagate hybrid SSD/mechanical hard drive: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/222310
 - I've held off putting SSD in my laptop because of the cost of fitting a
big enough one (granted I can, and do, use an external HDD as well, but
it's handy to have all the "essential" stuff available straight
off the internal drive). This would appear to give the best of both
worlds....

Paul G.

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John
Murray
Sent: 02 February 2011 08:46
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: SSD and VMWare Server 2... spicy!

I put the same Vertex 2 in my laptop a few months ago. No reliability
issues to report and great performance, although a colleague is on his
third drive already. YMMV

Regards,

John Murray

On 2 Feb 2011, at 06:53, "i_lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I know I should research this myself, but does anyone know
anything about
> > SSD Reliability? There's evidently no need to RAID them for
performance, but
> > what about data integrity?
>
> Ironically enough, that's one of the reasons I moved now - the
reliability numbers seem to now be a lot better (in terms of drive life,
write cycles etc).
>
> I expect to get about 5-6ish years out of this drive, the same as I
expect from a spindle..
>
> > [Edit] EEK! - some of the reviews http://tinyurl.com/6x4pg3z suggest
> > reliability is not a strong point! I think I'll wait a little
while - -
> > Please let me/us know if you experience any issues with it - - -
sorry to
> > put a damper on things! [/Edit]
>
> Yikes.
>
> Yeah, I'll report back if anything goes belly up. The only positive
aspect in that is that they seem to be either DOA or dying fast, suggesting
a batch/manufacture issue.
>
> if you make it past the first few weeks, not many failures... and
within that period, the ole consumer rights should kick in.
>
> It's a lot of money, and if I had seen those reviews, I might have
held off - but we'll see how it goes. certainly, the performance more than
lives up the hype!
>
> And as Paul G pointed out to me, the next generation Vertex 3 will be
nearly double the speed again when it ships (announced at CES)
>
> I.
>
>


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