The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    What is Solid-State Disk SSD?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by huygen, Jun 24, 2008.

  1. huygen

    huygen Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    18
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hi all,

    Can anyone tell me what Solid-State Disk is?

    What is the difference with general hard disk installed within many notebooks nowadays?

    And what makes it so expensive?

    Also, if compared with 15k rpm speed hard disk, which has the best performance?

    Thanks in advance
     
    huygen, Jun 24, 2008
    #1
  2. jisaac

    jisaac Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    306
    Messages:
    1,141
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    basically its a flash means of storage (like in your usbs), unlike hard drives which use spinning platters. SSD vs 15k HD? Depends on what ssd and what particular hd you're talking about, and unless you buy an scsi adapter for your computer, then no 15k hds are available. There are no 15k laptop hds.

    you should read the sticky at the top of this forum, or pm Les.
     
    jisaac, Jun 24, 2008
    #2
  3. makaveli72

    makaveli72 Eat.My.Shorts

    Reputations:
    1,235
    Messages:
    2,108
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    What is SSD? It's the future of storage. The next best thing. Excellent performance. Highly Expensive. But then again the better the performace, the higher the costs....

    I think the biggest differences between them and HDDs are the Speed (In every way..boot up time/read/write), Shock Resistance, Reliability (Performance), Heat generated, Batt. life of computer, Storage Space (for now), and the Cost.

    As for which one's better...IMO from what i've seen i'll say definitely the SSD.

    I say do some searches throughout the forum on SSD for more info.
     
    makaveli72, Jun 24, 2008
    #3
  4. powerpack

    powerpack Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    7,101
    Messages:
    5,757
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    Try this will give a good explanation.

    <FORM id=searchform action=http://www.wikipedia.org/search-redirect.php target='_"blank"'><INPUT id=searchInput name=search size='26'><INPUT type=hidden value=en name=language><INPUT class=searchButton type=submit value="Wikipedia Search" name=go 80=""><INPUT type=hidden value=Go name=go></FORM>

     
    Last edited by a moderator: May 8, 2015
    powerpack, Jun 24, 2008
    #4
  5. DarK_AssassiN

    DarK_AssassiN Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    55
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    SSD is definitely amazing, but the cost vs. space is pretty high. If you really want it then go ahead, but it's really expensive even for a small one.
     
    DarK_AssassiN, Jun 24, 2008
    #5
  6. Les

    Les Not associated with NotebookReview in any way

    Reputations:
    4,706
    Messages:
    5,391
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    0
    You can read my links below as they will probably answer your questions..

    If not, feel free to ask for further clarification.
     
    Les, Jun 24, 2008
    #6