SSD Drive
 

The good:

It is fast. Boot time is less than 1/2 what it was

The Bad:

I tried to install Migrate Easy 7.0 to move all my data to the drive. It killed my Windows 7 Pro install! I am having to reinstall the OS on my machine...

Uggghhhh.

Note to self, Kingston SSD drive came with a copy utility. Use it next time...

Why do you think the utility did not work? Trying to avoid the same problem when I upgrade the netbook.

Partition assignment is different on SDD drives. Can be fixed on a MAC/LINUX by editing fstab, Windows by booting with a recovery CD and using bcdedit to correct.

for the Slate?

No, I didn't get to the point of copying. The Acronis MigrateEasy 7.0 is not compatible with Win 7 x64. It probably works with x32. It probably installed an incompatible DLL.

Kingston drive came with "SSD Now". I probably should have used that.

Nope, for my main desktop computer. The slate already has an SSD drive. With the change in how things load, I might consider buying a 256GB SSD drive for my laptop.

I've seen several reports on reliability concerns - here is the latest:

SSD reliability lower than disks? | ZDNet

But why would you want to have data in two places? :p

I kid!

AFAIK the Intel and Samsung units have been very solid/reliable.

Is this your boot drive or your backup drive?

I got a dirt cheap 1TB USB drive and just drug-n-dropped all my data on it.

I've gone the cheap way on my new desktop machine I built. Have several 120gb (yeah, small i know) drives, using one for / and several for /home in a software raid array. I/O to the raid is still faster than a single drive and I finally have some real redundancy. Will upgrade to a set of TB drives eventually.

My initial experience with SSD is not good.

Every one failed in a horrible way.

Royal PIA to recover if recoverable at all.

I'm sticking with platters for a couple more years.

I'm using this as a boot drive. I'll make sure I setup an image and backup system for the SSD.

This may not be the fastest SSD out there, but it is much faster than a SATA II drive. My boot time is abot 1/3 to 1/4 of the boot time with the SATA II drive.

The latest drives starting around May of this year are fine. Quite a bit more reliable than mechanical drives now in fact. We store all of your credit card and tax information on them without issue.

Scott, who makes the best SSD now? Intel? Sansung?

We use the Intel chipset based drives in our storage arrays. We have tested the Sandforce chips as well and they work great.