I recently ended up down a rabbit hole on the Internet, which took me to an in-depth tutorial on how SSDs store data. I was surprised to find the memory only has a certain number of cycles before it stops retaining data. There is sophisticated logic that uses additional 'spare' areas to compensate as the memory degrades, but I was left wondering how long an SSD will last in regular use. The degradation isn't very fast, but it seems once the 'spare' areas have been used up, the next failure will screw up the drive.
I'm tempted to follow your lead - it would be nice to have my little Toshiba netbook boot more quickly - but I'll wait and see what your experience is with the SSD first. Thanks for being my beta tester!
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Date: 2012-01-06 06:27 pm (UTC)I'm tempted to follow your lead - it would be nice to have my little Toshiba netbook boot more quickly - but I'll wait and see what your experience is with the SSD first. Thanks for being my beta tester!