2010-05-30, 09:14 PM
Devil's Sunrise Wrote:An SSD would increase the overall efficiency, because loading and writing requires less time. Besides, no moving parts, so it would be more resistant than a normal HDD. Only negative thing about such a HDD is that its disk space is low, so you should check that first.i dropped my eee 701 many times without obvious problems, can't say anything about "faster" as i obviously don't have the same benchmarks as everyone else is comparing. however, SSD performance is supposed to degrade with write cycles. yes, the limit is very high, but keep in mind the performance degradation is also gradual. you can read about write cycle limits on wikipedia if you would like!
how do you figure that the only negative thing about ssd is low disk space?
also: see Ari/Lori's comments on this blog. it happened to me as well - corrupt ssd within 10 months of the new purchase (within warranty). in that instance, my netbook was all but bricked. i had to ask aforesaid linux guru friend to plug in a nice linux liveCD and remap the sector table for me so i could even turn it on. this won't happen to everyone, but from what i see on a variety of tech forums (netbook and others), the corrupt drive complaint seems to appear more often with SSDs, and i don't know why. linux guru himself said that SSD is more prone to corruption - don't know where he gets his info from, but based on what happened to mine, i'm inclined to believe him.