Reply to: Momentus® XT Solid State Hybrid Drives

[scooterscot]

Are they beta testing that already???

been and going now installed, runs very well. No crashes yet...

[doodab]

In 18,000 years you'll find the country a mile deep under a glacier.

Trust me on that.

I borrowed Threaded's time machine to go & have a look.

I'll need more vigorous activity to keep warm then.

[doodab]

Anything with the MS insignia on Mac is sheet. Office 20111 is a massive improvement.

I am hoping that after 18000 years of evolution it does my work for me while I partake of full immersion virtual reality porn.

[Spacecadet]

Anything with the MS insignia on Mac is sheet. Office 20111 is a massive improvement.

Are they beta testing that already???

[Bunk]

Anything with the MS insignia on Mac is sheet. Office 20111 is a massive improvement.

I'm not surprised, they've had over 18,000 years to get it right

[scooterscot]

Is 6 seconds to open word on a mac FAST??
Glad I have a PC then.

Maybe the key to Mac happiness is the lowering of expectations.

Anything with the MS insignia on Mac is sheet. Office 20111 is a massive improvement.

[Ignis Fatuus]

Is 6 seconds to open word on a mac FAST??
Glad I have a PC then.

Maybe the key to Mac happiness is the lowering of expectations.

No, it's refraining from loading it with MS tulipe.

[ThomasSoerensen]

Still happy. I've defragmented since to get the most out of it after I cloned my drive.

The thing I notice most is the speed at which my apps open, lighting fast. Word 2011 for Mac was installed a few weeks back, click on the app and it's ready for use 6 seconds later.

Is 6 seconds to open word on a mac FAST??
Glad I have a PC then.

Maybe the key to Mac happiness is the lowering of expectations.

[scooterscot]

Hows the drive going? Still fast enough to keep you happy?

Still happy. I've defragmented since to get the most out of it after I cloned my drive.

The thing I notice most is the speed at which my apps open, lighting fast. Word 2011 for Mac was installed a few weeks back, click on the app and it's ready for use 6 seconds later.

[d000hg]

If you're up to that level wouldn't you arguably be better just buying a separate SSD?

[Spacecadet]

Question: the 4Gb of flash is not persistent store like in an SSD? Or is it actually a small SSD drive acting as internal cache?

from what I can gather, the SSD is a persistent store used as a quick access area for very frequently used files.
The drive is supposed to work out which files are best kept in the SSD area.

Personally I think that 4GB of SSD storage is a bit low for windows 7, I would have preferred to see at least 16 if not 32GB

[d000hg]

Question: the 4Gb of flash is not persistent store like in an SSD? Or is it actually a small SSD drive acting as internal cache?

[Spacecadet]

Just installed this hard drive on me Macbook pro

Like a normal hard drive expect the most accessed data resides on 4gig of flash.

Awesome performance, booted up and ready to use in 18 seconds from cold.

500Gig, not bad for £95

Hows the drive going? Still fast enough to keep you happy?

[doodab]

I'm afraid it is switching. From one state to another. You don't know this?

No need to get so upset. The device retains it's 1 or 0 by switching from one state to another, nothing more complicated than that. Unless it's multiple states with which you are referring.

This can occur numerous times.

But as I said before, if the driver operates the product like an idiot it's going to fail, the hardware could operate indefinitely.

I understand now why I'm paid the big bucks...

A NAND flash cell will wear out after a finite number of write / erase cycles. For MLC this is about 10,000 cycles, for SLC about 10 times that.

I bought an intel one for my laptop, seriously worth the money even at €200 for 80GB.

[d000hg]

From reading reviews of SSDs, they only seem to talk about write failing... but read being safe so even a broken disk isn't losing data. This is reviewing for general PC use, not in server farms though... but then from talking to a guy from SNIA, in a big data-centre you view normal HDDs as pretty unreliable.

Been thinking about an SSD, but one of these hybrids sounds interesting. Does the hybrid part mean the flash part gets an extra-special hammering as all data goes 'through' it? Maybe that's what was being discussed, I tuned out a bit during the bickering. AtW do you really know this stuff or are you just opinionated... if the former your advice is appreciated.