Comments on: Are SSDs in netbooks on the way out?

By: James. Braselton

James. Braselton — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:02:04 +0000

hi. There. You. Are. Right. SSd. Will. Be. Back. In. Summer. From. SSd. Camcrders. Ssd. Navagation. Gps. Ssd. Gaming. Consoles. Ssd. TiVo. DVR. And. Pvr. Say. Buy buy. Too. The. Hard. Drive. Era

By: gmazin

gmazin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:46:49 +0000

Whoa… old article.

Also SSDs are just taking a nap. They’ll be back by summer.

By: jame braselton

jame braselton — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:22:20 +0000

HI THERE I FORGOT TOO MENCHIN THAT EEE PC WILL RELEAESE A 12 INCH EEE PC NET BOOK WITH 512 GB SSD DRIVE IN IT THIS YEAR BETWEEN $1,700 TOO $2,700 TAKE THAT COMPUTITION

By: jame braselton

jame braselton — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:20:11 +0000

HI THERE NO WAY SSD ARE GOING OUT FROM NET BOOKS I SEEN VIDEO ON YOU TUBE YOU CAN PUT A 1.8 INCH 32 64 128 GB SSD DRIVES IN THEM SOO THEY CAN SUPORT BIGGER SSD DRIVES BUT THE HARD DRIVE COMPANIES DONT WANT YOU TOO KNOW.

By: Jason Chang

Jason Chang — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:32:15 +0000

If the cost is lower and performance is better, is it possible for SSD’s wide adoption in standard NB PC market?

By: Brian Goodwin

Brian Goodwin — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:11:59 +0000

I hate HDD...they always seem to fail me.

Yet it seems we are always waiting for the SSD that lives up to the promise of being superior to the HDD. I am ready to buy a new netbook as a companion machine....and I want the SSD for the theoretical promise of better battery life, more drop resistance, etc.....and will likely end up with the HDD again.

By: Chris K

Chris K — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:52:58 +0000

SSDs run cooler, though, and that's a big consideration for me. When you cram lots of delicate electronics into a small space, you increase the risk of thermal damage.

(In fact, I've got a thermally wrecked hard 5400rpm disk that I had installed in my Eee 901, which has led me to order a RunCore SSD.)

Personally, I'll take a little less capacity, a smarter MLC controller, and comparable performance to keep the system from running hot enough to scorch my lap.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:34:09 +0000

I intentionally avoided all the SSD models this time when I bought my netbook. I don't need a small, slow, under-performing jump drive sitting in my PC, I want a proper hard drive.

Maybe next year the speeds will get better, but I will wait until the capacities are half as good as HDDs and read/write speeds are better than equivalent HDDs.

By: Luscious

Luscious — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:21:17 +0000

When you're dealing with a sub-$500 MSRP device, it doesn't make sense installing a slow,small capacity drive that may cost as much as 50% of that $500. Traditional hard drives are much cheaper, offer bigger capacity and sometimes perform faster - that's most likely why they are better suited to netbooks at the moment and pushing out first-gen SSD hardware.

For laptops and notebooks, however, I see SSD's replacing hard drives altogether in the next 5-8 years. The 2.5 inch form factor has already brought 256GB SSD hardware, already matching half the capacity of the biggest 500GB platter-based notebook drives. As the technology becomes more developed and prices come down, SSD's will dominate and push hard drives into the poor man's price range.

By: Lorie Ghamy

Lorie Ghamy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:57:21 +0000

@Gordon who said :

"...The SSD in my EEE PC failed after about 6 months..."

Same for me with the second and so slow SSD 8 Go of My EEE 900. Out now ! And what a pity for the 4 Go C: drive for original Windows XP. The system is unable to update to SP3 and I fight always beetween 100 and 200 Mo of free space. I use a SD card in rescue.

I regret a standard hard-drive, really !