Solid State

[MightyKing]

Hello, just wondering what a solid state drive is? I'm wondering because they are extremely expensive for lil capacity, are they more reliable or what?

 

[Eternal Rest]

Typically they rarely have any sort of failure, they run much quieter, and they have lower latency and quicker searching. It's basically a higher quality hard drive.

 

[Motoxrdude]

They have no moving parts, so they are ideal in laptops. They are also faster then conventional hard drives. O, and they are dead quite.

 

[WhiteFireDragon]

i'm predicting these will be standard in computers in 5 years

 

[Motoxrdude]

i'm predicting these will be standard in computers in 5 years

I'm guessing for laptops 2-3 years, and desktops will be mainstream in high end computers in 3, low end in 4. Who knows though, technology changes rapidly and giant leaps are made.

 

[PunterCam]

are ipods not all solid state these days? Can't imagine there's an actual hard drive in there, it's properly thin

 

[mep916]

are ipods not all solid state these days? Can't imagine there's an actual hard drive in there, it's properly thin

Flash memory is installed in iPods.

 

[PunterCam]

What's the difference?

 

[apj101]

What's the difference?

Basically solid state memory comes in 2 forms
Flash memory (like the ones in the modern day USB memory keys and Ipods)
SDRAM (like in ram)

Flash memory is non-volatile, meaning the data stored will be remembered when there is no power going to the device

SDRAM is volatile, meaning if the power is turned over all the memory is wiped clean

you can get DRAM solid state, which is bit of a cheat as it has a battery and back up the data in the event of power failure

 

[WhiteFireDragon]

Flash memory is installed in iPods.

i THINK the smaller 1-8GB ipods use flash, but the bigger 80gb ones use a small HD

 

[The_Beast]

The SSD use flash chip (like your RAM) to store data