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Need to get a new lap top and had thought that SSD was the way to go, thinking as there's no moving parts it'll last and run much better.

However I'm sure I read somewhere and now cant find it, that the SSD does where out, anybody know about this?
 
in the same sort of timescale that a mechanical will.

for example my samsung ssd must be about 18 months old and the "usage" graph hasnt even moved.

not worth worrying about, but you should be backing up your drives anyway.
 
Best thing I did was to get new laptop with SSD as standard. The speed at which it boots is quite amazing when compared to anything else I've owned.

With Win 8, the speed at which it allows scrolling through images is fantastic.
 
I have an SSD on my Samsung sries 7 Chronos laptop and Win 8 (loaded on the SSD) starts within 20 seconds. Looks like the future for now.
 
I use an SSD in this PC and boot time is really fast, I get almost one turn of the win8 spinny and im ready to go.

The only thing you need to watch is making sure the SSD will fit the laptop drive bay, as not all drives are the same thickness.
 
SSD are perfect for laptops because traditional drives don't like being moved about when on.
 
I use a hybrid drive which is part SSD and part HDD. With a price of £80.00 for a 750 gigabyte it was well worth it, only very slightly slower than a SSD with a fraction of the price.
 
I have SSD's in both my laptops/ home pc's. Runs very fast and boot times are quicker than the windows 7 animation can load.

You do however have to pay top dollar for a large one...
 
Put an SSD in my laptop. Super fast! With Win 8 it is awesome. Well worth it. As said before, make sure you get the right thickness as they come in 2 sizes. My laptop takes the thinner one.
 
Raincloud said:
Put an SSD in my laptop. Super fast! With Win 8 it is awesome. Well worth it. As said before, make sure you get the right thickness as they come in 2 sizes. My laptop takes the thinner one.
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It doesn't matter too much, you can just buy the thinner one and they come with a rubber spacer if you need it...
 
neil_g said:
unless youre throwing the machine around while the heads are moving across the platters youll be fine.
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Not from my experience, I've had a few go bad with people and it seems like walking with them in bags is the problem, perhaps from the jolting motion?
 
treeman said:
Need to get a new lap top and had thought that SSD was the way to go, thinking as there's no moving parts it'll last and run much better.

However I'm sure I read somewhere and now cant find it, that the SSD does where out, anybody know about this?
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SSDs have a finite number of read/write cycles, but the mean time to failure is of the order 10^-6 hours, so don't worry needlessly.
 
gman said:
Not from my experience, I've had a few go bad with people and it seems like walking with them in bags is the problem, perhaps from the jolting motion?
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When the heads are parked there should be no problem unless its a particularly large shock, but then damaging the hard drive is the least of your issues.

We've got loads of laptop users that travel nationally and internationally, we've not had any issues with mechanical drives. Mine has a mechanical and I've walked miles to and from train stations on my commute and its fine.

That said, if you can afford a ssd and can live with the smaller drive space get one.
 
Perhaps the users closed the lids thinking the laptop turned off and walked around with the laptop on until it (a) overheated (b) ran out of power.


Covered 150,000 miles trailing a laptop around and never had a problem.
 
I think I have decided to stay with normal hdd. I am looking at a MacBook and while I like the smaller size and weight, plus speed, the cost and size of ssd is hundreds. I think around £600-700 on a like for like basis. Yes, starting up will be quicker but it's not too bad as it is. Even on my 4yo laptop with just 2 gb ram, LR starts quick enough.
 
Dale_tem said:
Perhaps the users closed the lids thinking the laptop turned off and walked around with the laptop on
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Probably the case, but I wouldn't know for sure. If shock impact wasn't a problem then why would IBM, Apple and other big brands invest in developing anti-shock technology?
 
This is what I'm talking about, moving your laptop about when it's still on. Were you talking about when it's off?
 
both really.

if youre jolting your machine around when its read/writing youre asking for bother, the freefall sensors will only detect a drop.

you shouldnt really have a laptop powered on and in a rucksack doing your commute. for one its going to overheat. sleep or hibernate the heads will be parked anyway and/or will be powered down so the freefall sensor will not detect a drop anyway.
 
I find it fairly common for laptops to be moved about offices whilst on and aren't always placed down gently on the desk, probably due to the usual reason being if it isn't yours...
 
i cant tell you what our users do out of sight, but going on the amount of machines with dinks (saw a retina mbp with a gouge in it recently) its not careful handling. no hard drive failures here :)

anyway like i say, if you can then get a SSD.
 
Mqta said:
SSDs have a finite number of read/write cycles, but the mean time to failure is of the order 10^-6 hours, so don't worry needlessly.
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treeman said:
That first bit concerns me, the second bit I don't understand:thinking:
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Forget the second bit, it's irrelevant.

Actually, so is the first bit - but a lot of people spout it as a dire warning anyhow.

Yes, all SSDs have a limited number or write/erase cycles. So each block of memory can only be written to a limited number of times, 10,000 for most modern drives. After about 10,000 write/erase cycles the drive will start losing capacity - not data, just capacity.

But is that anything to worry about? Well, a 120GB drive will need to have had 1,200,000,000 MB of data written to it. That's enough for around 50 million raw images! If you took 1000 images a day it would take around 125 years before you reached the limit. That's why it's nothing worth worrying about.
 
i think i read somewhere that the average SSD used as a system drive with an operating system the lifespan would be a minimum of ten years
at the rate of technology ten years is 7 years to long the chances are the laptop would have been replaced anyway long before the life expectancy of the SSD

the 120gig SSD i have in my desktop is coming up to 3 years old and is perfectly fine and the desktop pc never gets switched off
 
I've got a 2007 dual core black macbook which I upgraded to a 240gb SSD after it took a stage dive off a 5ft speaker at a gig (which also destroyed the screen...eek). Was the best thing to happen to it and it boots, opens and runs programs quicker than any of my friends running windows8. When it came to getting a new macbook this year a 512gb SSD was on the spec list. :thumbs: Super rapido :)
 
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