mm wrote
> Rod Speed <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>> mm wrote
>>> Do solid state drives wear out quickly?
>> Nope.
>>> SORRY ABOUT THE SUBJECT LINE. SOMETHING JUST HAPPENED
>>> TO THE KEYBOARD AND IT ONLY TYPES LEGIBLY IN CAPS, AND
>>> THE SUBJECT LINE RUNS THE WRONG DIRECTION
> I exitted windows after two days, and today I rebooted and it's working fine again.
> In Win98, when I opened too many FFox tabs, the alphabet would change,
> and iirc if I closed them or Firefox, it would go back to normal. But
> this time it was a set of a, e, and i's with funny lines attached.
> However I still had the right alphabet in Eudora, though not Firefox
> or Agent. Even closing FF didn't help when I tried to type in Agent.
> Very strange.
Nope, FFox can be pretty resource hungry.
>> Its possessed, beat it to death with the largest
>> waddy you can find, that will fix the problem.
> Okay. It's working now so I'll just punish it for last night.
>>> Somone somewhere wrote that because it's so fast, he
>>> wanted to get a solid state drive to hold his operating system,
>> That doesnt really make a lot of sense. The OS isnt the major
>> user of the hard drive in the sense of what gets most access.
>> He actually said he wants to put the swap file on it.
> I'm sure your right. I looked for his post but I couldn't find it.
> I was probably even wrong about what ng it was in.
>> It normally makes more sense to have enough
>> physical ram so the swapfile doesnt get used instead.
>>> and a mechanical drive for other purposes.
>>> I need harddrives for a Dell computer a friend gave to me without any hard drive.
>>> I can afford to buy a 40gig SATA solid state drive for 100 dollars,
>> You can get one hell of a hard drive for that price, 2TB in fact.
>>> and a bigger cheaper drive for less used things.
>>> The big disadvantage I found listed on the WEB IS THAT THEY
>>> WEAR OUT SOON, EVEN AFTER ONLY 1 MILLION ACCESSES.
>> Not with modern solid state drives.
> One of my big complaints about the web is that so few pages of
> all sorts have dates on them. And I thought there might be a date
> in the web page source code, but I haven't found that either.
Yeah, can be a problem, and unlike with usenet, you dont necessarily
see anyone pointing out obvious howlers in quite a bit of web page stuff.
> Sort of related: Once I wanted to find the date of a particular
> hamfest, and I found 5 announcement pages for it, none with the
> year mentioned. I had to check which date came out on a Sunday.
>>> IS THAT TOO SOON.
>> Depends on what you put on it.
> I was thinking a million accesses might be only a year or two
> for some files on the drive, and that would be too short for me.
There arent too many modern SS drives with million access limits and
wear levelling which is universal now helps dramatically with that too.
It would normally only be the swap file that sees anything like doing
that in a year or two, we are talking about writes, not reads.
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