Re: How full can my hard drive be?
- From: JuanAdams <jimsocal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:37:35 -0700 (PDT)
On Mar 28, 2:29 pm, Mike Torello <torel...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
JuanAdams <jimso...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I do have Google, after all.
On Mar 27, 4:37 pm, Tepid <gu...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The end user will notice the reduction in performance as the drive
thrashes about when close to full. Rattle, rattle, rattle, wait, wait,
wait.
Your drive is going toast......
But that depends on how full and how slow, the manufacturer (ie; how
cheap),,,
you need to leave atleast 20% free space for proper defragging
never going over 50% free space is a bit on the rediculous side if you
ask me.
With that said......
SSD drives will not suffer these problems.
--
Tepid
What's an SSD drive?
GOT GOOGLE??
For those who may not want to go looking it up, I found the following
info at wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive
"A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-
state memory to store persistent data. An SSD emulates a hard disk
drive interface, thus easily replacing it in most applications. An SSD
using SRAM or DRAM (instead of flash memory) is often called a RAM-
drive.
The original usage of the term solid-state (from solid-state physics)
refers to the use of semiconductor devices rather than electron tubes,
but in this context, has been adopted to distinguish solid-state
electronics from electromechanical devices as well. With no moving
parts, solid-state drives are less fragile than hard disks and are
also silent (unless a cooling fan is used); as there are no mechanical
delays, they usually employ low access time and latency.
SSDs have begun to appear in laptops,[1][2] although as of 2009 they
are substantially more expensive per unit of capacity than hard drives
(US$500 for a 256 GB SSD, vs. US$50 for a similar size external USB HDD
[3])."
me:
Sounds like a good deal if and when they come down in price. Right now
they're maybe a good deal, anyway if you consider that they are less
likely (IF they indeed are less likely?) to die within a year or two
as most USB External Hard drives seem to do.
.
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