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Praxeas 12-27-2008 03:20 PM
Solid State Hard Drives
 
Seems they might be the future of HDs...

Right now they don't hold a lot of capacity and the price is high.

I see some Laptops shipping with them in addition to a regular HD

Praxeas 12-27-2008 03:22 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
BTW these things are faster than Western Digitals raptor and don't have to worry about spinning plates and over heating I assume...with the ability to hold more capacity than a raptor

Cindy 12-27-2008 04:20 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
:noidea :overhead

mfblume 12-27-2008 04:46 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
The little net notebooks use them, I think.

ManOfWord 12-27-2008 04:49 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by mfblume (Post 667778)
The little net notebooks use them, I think.
Yes they do. I looked at 2 of them today at Best Buy. One was $300 and the other $400. Convenient I guess, if you don't have anything to do anything but get on the net. :D

Praxeas 12-27-2008 04:50 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
think "no moving parts".

The speed of a hard drive is tied to have fast the magnetic plates can spin

mfblume 12-27-2008 04:57 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ManOfWord (Post 667785)
Yes they do. I looked at 2 of them today at Best Buy. One was $300 and the other $400. Convenient I guess, if you don't have anything to do anything but get on the net. :D
Actually such a gizmo is all I personally need in a laptop, since I use it for my studies and writing. :) I am planning on getting one soon!

mfblume 12-27-2008 04:57 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Praxeas (Post 667786)
think "no moving parts".

The speed of a hard drive is tied to have fast the magnetic plates can spin
Flash drives are gaining ground! :)

Praxeas 12-27-2008 06:13 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
I bought my LT for $350. It was about 400 after taxes etc etc. It does what I want in a laptop. The only thing I need to do is put more ram in it.

I can use it for anything besides serious gaming, hard core video and image editing and functioning as a media server with over 200 gigs of music and video...since the HD is only 120 gigs that is.

Praxeas 12-27-2008 06:15 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
You know those STDs...wait..Solid State Drives...ahhh yeah I know what you guys were thinking...Yes those STDs are smaller than regular HDs too

ManOfWord 12-27-2008 06:20 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
I predict that they will replace the traditional HD eventually. The price will come down and they will get bigger.

The MacBook Air wasn't a big hit though. It's $2600 for the config of my MacBook Pro! Way too steep for me

ronharvey 12-27-2008 06:40 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
With all those hard drives spinning in the International Space Station, it's a wonder it can even move!

SiblingRevelry 12-28-2008 09:07 AM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ManOfWord (Post 667785)
Yes they do. I looked at 2 of them today at Best Buy. One was $300 and the other $400. Convenient I guess, if you don't have anything to do anything but get on the net. :D
This is why I bought a BlackBerry. I was lusting after a net notebook I saw at a store (it was so cute, it was so light!) and I said to myself, "Self, you need something practical. Get that BlackBerry." Especially since I wanted a HP 1000 Mini Vivienne Tam edition with the AMAZING fuschia fabric cover. (Fuschia is my favorite color.) http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/sh...i1000vt_series

By comparison, the BlackBerry was more practical. I can receive phone calls on it!

And yes, I have read AFF on my new BlackBerry.

One thing that really *amazes* me (as someone who has had some sort of computer in her home since 1987) is how TINY storage has gotten. I put a 2 GB card in the BlackBerry and the card is as small as the nail on my thumb and only cost me $30. My first computer hard drive had 40 MB, and came in a computer with 1 MB of RAM, an amber monitor and a 1200 baud modem. It set me back $1000 in 1990 dollars. (That wasn't my first computer. My first computer was a Morrow CP/M I stole from my father for law school and it had a whopping 64K of RAM). But I still miss my WordStar software. Miss, miss, miss.

These days, a can opener has more memory than my first computer with a hard drive (a joke, but not awfully far from the truth).

Ah, memories!

SiblingRevelry 12-28-2008 09:09 AM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ManOfWord (Post 667816)
I predict that they will replace the traditional HD eventually. The price will come down and they will get bigger.

The MacBook Air wasn't a big hit though. It's $2600 for the config of my MacBook Pro! Way too steep for me
I saw one of those Airs a few weeks ago. It was the most beautiful computer I'd ever seen. It was so elegant. And, you're right, so expensive. But beautiful. That's one thing Apple has down well, beauty.

scotty 12-28-2008 10:25 AM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by SiblingRevelry (Post 668076)
This is why I bought a BlackBerry. I was lusting after a net notebook I saw at a store (it was so cute, it was so light!) and I said to myself, "Self, you need something practical. Get that BlackBerry." Especially since I wanted a HP 1000 Mini Vivienne Tam edition with the AMAZING fuschia fabric cover. (Fuschia is my favorite color.) http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/sh...i1000vt_series

By comparison, the BlackBerry was more practical. I can receive phone calls on it!

And yes, I have read AFF on my new BlackBerry.

One thing that really *amazes* me (as someone who has had some sort of computer in her home since 1987) is how TINY storage has gotten. I put a 2 GB card in the BlackBerry and the card is as small as the nail on my thumb and only cost me $30. My first computer hard drive had 40 MB, and came in a computer with 1 MB of RAM, an amber monitor and a 1200 baud modem. It set me back $1000 in 1990 dollars. (That wasn't my first computer. My first computer was a Morrow CP/M I stole from my father for law school and it had a whopping 64K of RAM). But I still miss my WordStar software. Miss, miss, miss.

These days, a can opener has more memory than my first computer with a hard drive (a joke, but not awfully far from the truth).

Ah, memories!

My first was a Texas Instruments key pad that hooked to the TV for a monitor... used cassette tapes for the programs...

ManOfWord 12-28-2008 02:16 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by scotty (Post 668089)
My first was a Texas Instruments key pad that hooked to the TV for a monitor... used cassette tapes for the programs...
That's wild!!! That was my first computer as well! A TS180 or something like that. I got it for enduring a Time Share presentation! :D

Praxeas 12-28-2008 10:53 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by SiblingRevelry (Post 668076)
This is why I bought a BlackBerry. I was lusting after a net notebook I saw at a store (it was so cute, it was so light!) and I said to myself, "Self, you need something practical. Get that BlackBerry." Especially since I wanted a HP 1000 Mini Vivienne Tam edition with the AMAZING fuschia fabric cover. (Fuschia is my favorite color.) http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/sh...i1000vt_series

By comparison, the BlackBerry was more practical. I can receive phone calls on it!

And yes, I have read AFF on my new BlackBerry.

One thing that really *amazes* me (as someone who has had some sort of computer in her home since 1987) is how TINY storage has gotten. I put a 2 GB card in the BlackBerry and the card is as small as the nail on my thumb and only cost me $30. My first computer hard drive had 40 MB, and came in a computer with 1 MB of RAM, an amber monitor and a 1200 baud modem. It set me back $1000 in 1990 dollars. (That wasn't my first computer. My first computer was a Morrow CP/M I stole from my father for law school and it had a whopping 64K of RAM). But I still miss my WordStar software. Miss, miss, miss.

These days, a can opener has more memory than my first computer with a hard drive (a joke, but not awfully far from the truth).

Ah, memories!
My first computer didn't have a hard drive. It had 4k ram and a tape player

My next one was an upgrade....it had a 5.25 floppy to speed things up

RandyWayne 12-29-2008 12:13 AM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
My first computer didn't have a disk drive either..... but I DID spend 15 bucks for a very special cable which attached to a cassette player!

Timmy 12-29-2008 09:06 AM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
My first computer:

http://www.screensite.org/courses/Jb...389/Abacus.jpg

Praxeas 12-29-2008 02:38 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
Ah the frustration...waiting 15 min to load a program from a cassette tape just to play text based lunar lander or Zork or Hammurabi

scotty 12-29-2008 03:16 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
LUNAR LANDER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


aaahhhhh , the good ole days.















NOT !!

RandyWayne 12-29-2008 04:55 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Praxeas (Post 668810)
Ah the frustration...waiting 15 min to load a program from a cassette tape just to play text based lunar lander or Zork or Hammurabi
My very first game on a 5.25 floppy was Zork III. I still see Grues in my sleep as I wonder through the hidden chambers of King Flathead.....

Praxeas 12-29-2008 05:00 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
Ok...first PC was a commodore Pet...it looked like an egyptologist built it with a vision of the SPinx in mind.

We upgraded the ram from a slow 4k to a screaming fast 8k....

AT times it would not "boot" so I would grab one of the "peripheral" parts of the MB that stuck out the side of the PC and bend it upwards to get the PC to boot. I dazzled my friends poking sine waves and watching the neat double helix it made down the screen.....man those PCs back then were practically useless

Praxeas 12-29-2008 05:02 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
Then I got a commodore 64. I remember typing in machine code from the back of a magazine and using their compiler to turn into a neat video game...anyone remember Impossible Mission?

RandyWayne 12-29-2008 05:30 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Praxeas (Post 668979)
Then I got a commodore 64. I remember typing in machine code from the back of a magazine and using their compiler to turn into a neat video game...anyone remember Impossible Mission?
Who can forget those white robots?

RandyWayne 12-29-2008 05:35 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
One of the first computer magazines I ever had a subscription to.
http://www.atarimagazines.com/comput...es/issue90.jpg

My first computer
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2278/...g?v=1209857493

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/ticosbyad.jpg

The game that got me hooked on role playing games (computer only).
http://www.videogamehouse.net/tunnelsm.jpg

Walk and Talk 01-01-2009 08:29 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
This is fact: What you are about to see is computers without hard drives. Personal computers will be sold without HDs. Your data storage will all be online. You will not purchase programs as we do now. You will purchase access to a program - online.

Google's online word processor and spreadsheet are just the beginning. The super huge data centers going up in Eastern Washington are the tip of the iceberg.

The present free offerings of places like Google to store your documents online is just the tip of the iceberg.

What worries me is the ability for 'Big Brother' to access all your info; to go through your "books" at will; to gather data about you or your company; to block you for being "subversive"; how vulnerable your stuff is to things like an EMP attack; etc.

Mike
PS. NO, this is not a conspiracy theory. It is fact and they are setting the groundwork for it now. How do I know? I know because I live here where the data centers have been recently constructed; because I/you can talk to some of the employees of these companies as they live and shop alongside you.

ManOfWord 01-01-2009 09:25 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
Real simple: I won't do it. I will NOT store my personal files on a server! :D

RandyWayne 01-01-2009 09:47 PM
Re: Solid State Hard Drives
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ManOfWord (Post 670866)
Real simple: I won't do it. I will NOT store my personal files on a server! :D
Me neither. I have no qualms about storing ENCRYPTED files on a remote server as backups. But NEVER as "only copies".


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