Why SSDs aren't so great (Dropped my laptop)

mc-dexter · Dec 1, 2008

El Fiendo said:
Just because a SSD drive can survive a cataclysmic fall like that doesn't mean its designed with the intent of people doing that. It's just showing that it can and all that it is capable of. Of course they're gonna make things that can overkill and outperform what is expected. "We found the average speed limit in the United States of America is roughly 38 MPH. Thus, we made seatbelts capable of withstanding speeds up to and including 39 MPH. On a completely unrelated note, high speed ejections from cars has increased 500 fold."

seriously... can you understand any reason behind that, 1mph more, fair does it can make a bit of diffrence i suppose but making something withstand that extra 1mph, what is the point, if someone is speeding then they arnt just guna be doing the 1mph more are they.

DaMulta · Dec 1, 2008

Did I miss something?

The title and the thread topic are not about the same thing are they?

Why SSDs aren't so great (Dropped my laptop)

Yet you didnt have SDD in your laptop.

I'm lost.....

mc-dexter said:
Ok is anyone having the same problem... everytime i click refresh on my browser... sometimes it will get rid of some posts you lot have posted, untill i click refresh again.

Tell your browser to open the web page new every time.

Solaris17 · Dec 1, 2008

DaMulta said:
Did I miss something?

The title and the thread topic are not about the same thing are they?

Why SSDs aren't so great (Dropped my laptop)

Yet you didnt have SDD in your laptop.

I'm lost.....

im lost to because now were talking about seat belts.

WhiteLotus · Dec 1, 2008

DaMulta said:
Post

actually LOL material

El Fiendo · Dec 1, 2008

Marketing. =p

Mazda can only withstand 38 mph?! Well Toyota can withstand 39!

Either that or someone hit a typo on the tech spec sheet and now all the 38 mph seatbelts are made to the specification of 39 mph. Human error and all.

mc-dexter · Dec 1, 2008

i agree this has gone totally of topic now! ...although i was helping that in my own way

lol

El Fiendo · Dec 1, 2008

My seatbelt example was simply to show they aren't designing things to 'just meet' requirements. They don't expect you to drop a laptop 3 stories just like they don't expect people to drive the speed limit with seatbelts. Of course everything is going to be overdone.

Solaris17 · Dec 1, 2008

El Fiendo said:
My seatbelt example was simply to show they aren't designing things to 'just meet' requirements. They don't expect you to drop a laptop 3 stories just like they don't expect people to drive the speed limit with seatbelts. Of course everything is going to be overdone.

i know i just wanted to play off of damulta because i wnted to post a pic of a crying kid

crazy pyro · Dec 1, 2008

Haha, @ DaMulta I'd got the impression that SSDs were awesome and mechanical hard drives would die if you dropped the laptop, there's no need to have an SSD for general use is the point I was making, also I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere that SSDs were guaranteed to survive drops of up to 50 CM, my laptop dropped from twice the height and survived with no problems.

DaMulta · Dec 1, 2008

hahahahah

I guess you have never dropped a running Hard drive before

I think I broke 3 of them this year......

They break, and they can even break driving in a car from the bouncing. Not all the time, but it does happen. THEY ARE MOVING PARTS.

DaMulta · Dec 1, 2008

You could try formatting your drive and dropping at the same time. See of you have any damage after that. Bad sectors anything

Or run that program that test your HDD speed, and see if your laptop drive survives the fall.

I'd place money that the SDD could do it over and over, and the normal HDD could not

crazy pyro · Dec 1, 2008

I guess, thing is though that I take care not to let it get dropped when in use, dunno how it managed to fly out of my bag along with the rest of my kit but it did.

kysg · Dec 1, 2008

yea it is possible to drop an mechanical hdd and still see the thing still haul some rear end.
SSD just removes any slight possibility of the thing dying when dropped.

heh crying kid at tx vs ok game...nothing to say there.

Wile E · Dec 1, 2008

This thread is kinda pointless. People dropping running laptops happens all the time. That's why there is a market for not only SSDs, but also the drives with fall sensors that park the heads when they detect a fall.

Besides, it's not just the resistance to breakage from dropping that makes SSDs so great. It's also their vastly superior random access times, and their power saving abilities. Both make for a better experience, especially on a laptop.

mrw1986 · Dec 1, 2008

Wile E said:
This thread is kinda pointless. People dropping running laptops happens all the time. That's why there is a market for not only SSDs, but also the drives with fall sensors that park the heads when they detect a fall.

Besides, it's not just the resistance to breakage from dropping that makes SSDs so great. It's also their vastly superior random access times, and their power saving abilities. Both make for a better experience, especially on a laptop.

Agreed, the OP really doesn't get the point. There's a HUGE market for people dropping it while the machine is on. Hell, I've dropped laptops that were OFF and the HDD broke...

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