vaio tt ssd or hdd?!?!?!

noob here and let me reassure you guys i did try search before i post this possible repost. i have search youtube, google, this website you name it. i still haven't found enough to answer my questions. little info i just sold my macbook 13" and i want to get a small computer but no netbooks those are for kids (j/k to the p owners). im looking at getting the tt and actually ordered one with the 128 ssd drive yesterday but after i read some people saying that ssd drives blow i quickly canceled my order to do some more research before i drop $$$600 on a hard drive. money isnt really an issue to a point i have plenty of plastic to buy stuff. So my main problem is which is better hdd or ssd. i keep seeing things on youtube that show comps with ssd running alot faster then hdd and i know all the benefits like battery life no moving parts simple things like that. i just dont know about how it performs in vaios or in the tt that i would like to buy asap. i have never used ssd before. people say ssd crashes or slows down when multitasking anyone with the new tt's experience this? what type of ssd are in the tt serious slc mls scandisk good kind bad kind anyone?? also they say every time you write on ssd they get smaller and smaller how drastic is that?? i like to do fresh starts on my computers quite often, so would an ssd not be a good choice for me? please help me tt owners or sony owners that have used ssd drives before, that know if the ssd or hdd is better from first hand experience. so i can order my computer already!!

 

OK, first off $600? For a 128gb SSD? No no do the research i know you got the money but for $600 you can get a 256gb SSD instead wouldnt that be much better?

SSD has become ALOT faster since its release it was a joke at first but recent benchmarks have shown that SSD is really good.

The benefits you will see is:

No more Heat from the HDD(that is great considering this notebooks is so slow and will be in your lap)

Faster boot times(especially the newer ones)

No more vibrations from the HDD loading anything on the PC.

There are many things i can list but i think if you have the money(which you do) go for it just make sure you buy one(256gb) and put it in yourself. It'll be fun and you'll learn something new cant beat that huh?

 

haha yeah right i cant do it my self i tried installing a hard drive in my desktop once and i somehow or another made 2 or 3 partitions and after got it to finally work (that was just a hard drive) out of it and i couldnt get the floppy to go back so now there is a hole where my flopy used to be and my hard drive just hanging by wires! i dont trust my self enough. so lets say im a retard and im willing to pay the rip off prices of a sony to get the 128 ssd is it as fast as the 200 ssd you speak of? i dont really need space more then i would like performance! and multitasking with out crashes,glitches,slowdowns as some people have said the ssd do. and that if you write on them they get smaller and smaller! to where i will worry about space on my hard drive.

 

See if you can get the exact manufacturer and model of the SSD before buying. The performance varies WILDLY based on these factors.

At this point I'd rather have a large 500GB hard drive than a 128GB SSD. The slow decay of SSD sizes isn't something you'll actually notice, because from what I understand it takes several years of writes/erases for the sectors to actually go bad.

The best widely available SSD right now is the Intel X25, it is insanely fast. Even with the speed, apparently over several months the drives slow down in performance after they start to become fragmented. Still, NEVER try to defragment an SSD drive, make SURE that auto-defragmenting is disabled in Vista. Traditional defragmentation will trash an SSD incredibly fast.

It is good that you like to do fresh installs of your computer fairly often, because even these Intel drives will degrade performance over time, but a clean wipe and reset will allegedly reset them to max performance status.

More information here: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=669

Anywho, an SSD will give you maximum performance, but I'd still consider the technology to be rapidly evolving and improving. An SSD you buy today will be notably inferior to an SSD you buy in 12 months. On the other hand, traditional Hard Drive technology is very mature, and the hard drive you buy in 12 months time will be relatively the same as a hard drive you buy today, though the capacity may increase significantly.

 

i actually tried to do this today after i got home from work i called the sony people and asked them what type brand of ssd is in the vaio tt model i wanted to buy and he says he dont know all he knows its ssd. which didnt help me out any. and like i said memory isnt something i really need in a small laptop i have a big hard drive on my desktop and a external hard drive for back ups. so maybe i should just go with hdd even if its slower, and runs hotter, and makes lots of noise and battery consumption?? because like you say the hdd isnt new technology and its cheap and we know what it can do.....i dunno!

 

It's Samsung MMCQE28GFMUP MLC of course, I don't think Samsung has 128GB SLC anyway, should be limited to 64GB still