Video smackdown: Solid State Disk vs. Magnetic Hard Drive

OqobattleIt’s not exactly Celebrity Deathmatch, but if you haven’t seen a head-to-head battle between SSD and traditional hard drive machines, pull up a ringside chair. Rob has a lengthy video of two OQO portables, one with flash-based storage and one with a standard hard drive. The only other difference is an ever-so-slightly faster CPU in the SSD unit: 1.6 GHz as opposed to 1.5 GHz. You’ll get a real-time view of Vista boot ups, sleep mode, hibernation, and waking up. Aside from the Vista bootup, that sounds like me on a typical day, with a little bit of RSS reading on the side.There are no surprises here: integrated flash-based storage pretty much kicks the pants off of today’s magnetic storage, which is great for mobile devices. As far as power consumption, Rob observes an extra 45 to 60 minutes of power, which sounds a tad high, but then again, I didn’t do the test. 60 minutes would be nearly a 50% boost in run-time; I figured we’d see 20% more time max, but as we always say, your mileage may vary. Now if we could just get SSD capacity up and prices down, we’d be in business!

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