HD vs SSD

Nothing surprising in any of those results. It'll be a few years before all SSD hardware can match even current hard drive technology for speed and usefulness. Considering that everyone automagically expects an SSD to decrease power consumption - especially on laptops - and are kinda shocked to learn they really don't to any appreciable degree actual physical hard drives will be around for a long time to come.

Now, if they had compared those Seagate drives to some Mtron SSD hardware, things might be a bit different. :)

Of course, the prices are ridiculous but some SSD hardware can leave current hard drives in the dust... but it'll cost you an arm, a leg, half a year's salary and a second mortgage it seems.
 
Poor review to not include the raptors and the mtrons.
 
agreed, could have been much better.
but its there, poor in quality as it is.
they grabbed some old drives at that.

a good review would be raptor vs mtron.
and not just load times, but copying whole dvd images and other such fun stuff.
 
It would be nice to see some low ended lappy with a 40Gb SSD card for mobility at a nice price. As for now, the speed to transport data from the SSD to the system needs to be enhanced for better transfer rates.
 
Yeah nothing to surprising here. SSD drives is still a young technology (but growing fast) that compared to hard drives. I can see performance of SSD getting very close to hard drives in about 3 years, however are still going to command a higher price then that of hard drives.

The only goods aboout SSD right now is
1. low latency
2. low power usage
3. no moving parts
 
Those kinds of videos are pretty misleading as we have no clue what could have been done prior to those boots. With BootVis and some patience, I can make most any regular laptop (like the Dells in the video, could be a Latitude D600 or an Inspiron 600m, same machines really) boot in roughly 15 seconds or slightly less afterwards, so...

Based on the video, and timing it from when the POST screen disappears, give or take .5 seconds for the handoff (happens at about 7.5 to 8 seconds into the video), I'd guesstimate the SSD machine on the left boots clean to the Desktop in roughly 12-13 seconds.

Now, compare that to an experiment I did in the past where I had a Dell Inspiron 600m, 1GB of DDR 333 in it, and a 5400 rpm 40GB IBM/Hitachi Deskstar. No network connection, a clean install of XP SP2, the latest video driver for the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 64MB that was in it (not the Catalyst crap, only the bare drivers), the latest Intel chipset driver, etc. Checking the boot time with BootVis showed a 38 second boot, easily repeatable and showing ~1 leeway in that time interval.

And then I optimized it with BootVis, one time.

Booted in 13.8 seconds. And that was with a 5400 rpm drive, too. With a 7200 it probably would have come in just a hair under 13, so... it's entirely possible to get fast boot times. But realistically, it's more of a bragging rights kind of thing to have a super fast boot than anything else because it requires some variables to always be in place: no network connection (no hardline, no Wi-Fi - slows down the boot pretty severely), almost nothing in the System Tray (no background apps, etc), and basically the leanest possible drivers for all the hardware (no OEM crap packages, just the bare drivers).

Interesting little video, but I almost beat it with a physical hard drive, so in the long run, the only advantage the SSD really has is that very low random access time.
 
thats why sustained transfer speeds have to e tested also.
its nice that a boot can be done fast, but its not the be all end all.

If a 4.7GB file takes longer to copy to/from SSD the HD, then thats a major limitation (depending on how much of time difference). This does affect load times of maps, and as games get bigger and maps get more complicated, so do maps.

on small files, even the slower SSDs should win out because of almost no seek time.
on bigger ones..... dont know.

there have been reports of high failure rates on some SSDs
 
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