Comments on: SSD drives not so hot after all – told you they weren’t worth the money http://www.slashgear.com/ssd-drives-not-so-hot-after-all-told-you-they-werent-worth-the-money-1810791/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Tue, 08 May 2012 18:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: danwat1234 http://www.slashgear.com/ssd-drives-not-so-hot-after-all-told-you-they-werent-worth-the-money-1810791/#comment-65751 danwat1234 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:36:09 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/ssd-drives-not-so-hot-after-all-told-you-they-werent-worth-the-money-1810791.php#comment-65751 Well, SSDs now days are quite reliable, quite fast, quiet energy efficient, and getting to be affordable. I guess they ARE worth the money. A Newb wrote this article for sure.

]]> By: Orclev http://www.slashgear.com/ssd-drives-not-so-hot-after-all-told-you-they-werent-worth-the-money-1810791/#comment-38330 Orclev Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:11:25 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/ssd-drives-not-so-hot-after-all-told-you-they-werent-worth-the-money-1810791.php#comment-38330 That’s essentially the biggest problem with SSD, the sticker shock. It’s actually a superior storage system in many ways, but until the price drops to something reasonable it’s going to be a no-go. I’m rather curious about the statistics on here though. I’ve owned several notebooks, and all of them but one died of dead hard drives at some point or another (often multiple times as I’d replace the HD, and have the new one die at some point). One of the systems I replaced before I was ready to though because a year or so after I replaced the first HD that died the power supply fried and blew out the motherboard. Other than that one, every other laptop I’ve ever had died of obsolescence, but every last one also went through several HDs, and always outside the warranty period (if only just).

Very interested to find out what the long term reliability of SSD drives is. With a traditional HD the long term reliability is what kills you every time, not talking inside of 6 months, or even a year, but looking at anything past the one year mark. If they’re dieing early on, that sounds like a simple case of bad components and is actually good because they should still be under warranty, but if they fail after working ok for 6 months or more, that’s more of an issue.

]]> By: Nunoff Yurbiz http://www.slashgear.com/ssd-drives-not-so-hot-after-all-told-you-they-werent-worth-the-money-1810791/#comment-38329 Nunoff Yurbiz Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:55:29 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/ssd-drives-not-so-hot-after-all-told-you-they-werent-worth-the-money-1810791.php#comment-38329 Hmmm, SSD looks good on paper. Too bad. After reading the post, clicking on the Amazon link below to the Transcend 32GB SSD, and seeing the price I will not be picking one up any time soon.

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