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Solid State of the art
It may not look it but this is a pretty nifty piece of kit. It's a solid state hard disc, and it's as revolutionary as the floppy, the hard disc, or the CD-ROM. It's basically mass storage and as it's name suggests, it has no moving parts like a regular HD. It's like a very large capacity memory stick really. The advantage of this is that it's quiet, it's fast (no seek times) and because it has no moving parts it's far less likely to break and uses very little power - whilst generating near zero heat. One day all hard discs will be like this, which will mean your laptop will be far less fragile, will last longer on a charge and won't be as hot sitting on your lap. Desktop PCs will be near silent and much faster.
The thing itself is disappointingly light, it's nice to have a bit of heft to technology. Other than that there are two connections; one for power, one for data, and some screw holes for mounting the thing. This is an entry-level drive, I paid £160 for 128GB which is a lot of money for the capacity compared to a classic HD, but you can pay double that for one of the Crucial drives that offer more speed. As I'll be installing Windows 7 on this one and not playing too many PC games right now I'm not that bothered. I'm just interested to see how quickly an OS loads and operates off a solid state disk.
There's a pretty decent review here.
Solid State of the art
It may not look it but this is a pretty nifty piece of kit. It's a solid state hard disc, and it's as revolutionary as the floppy, the hard disc, or the CD-ROM. It's basically mass storage and as it's name suggests, it has no moving parts like a regular HD. It's like a very large capacity memory stick really. The advantage of this is that it's quiet, it's fast (no seek times) and because it has no moving parts it's far less likely to break and uses very little power - whilst generating near zero heat. One day all hard discs will be like this, which will mean your laptop will be far less fragile, will last longer on a charge and won't be as hot sitting on your lap. Desktop PCs will be near silent and much faster.
The thing itself is disappointingly light, it's nice to have a bit of heft to technology. Other than that there are two connections; one for power, one for data, and some screw holes for mounting the thing. This is an entry-level drive, I paid £160 for 128GB which is a lot of money for the capacity compared to a classic HD, but you can pay double that for one of the Crucial drives that offer more speed. As I'll be installing Windows 7 on this one and not playing too many PC games right now I'm not that bothered. I'm just interested to see how quickly an OS loads and operates off a solid state disk.
There's a pretty decent review here.