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SSD Drive
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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...
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12-20-2010, 04:43 PM
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Why do you think the utility did not work? Trying to avoid the same problem when I upgrade the netbook.
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12-20-2010, 05:20 PM
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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.
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12-20-2010, 06:21 PM
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for the Slate?
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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.
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12-20-2010, 07:29 PM
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12-20-2010, 07:30 PM
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I've seen several reports on reliability concerns - here is the latest:
SSD reliability lower than disks? | ZDNet |
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12-21-2010, 12:28 PM
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But why would you want to have data in two places?
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12-21-2010, 12:39 PM
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AFAIK the Intel and Samsung units have been very solid/reliable.
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12-21-2010, 12:42 PM
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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.
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12-21-2010, 02:10 PM
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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.
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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.
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12-21-2010, 06:43 PM
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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.
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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.
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Scott, who makes the best SSD now? Intel? Sansung?
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1970/1982 Porsche 914-6/911SC 2.7 RS
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