True ram used

[Fluffy Frufflebottoms]

well,,

I actually took the time to read up a bit on SSD's..... at this link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

It appears that while the SSD 'might" be the wave of the future, the future of SSD's is not here yet...

The writing + rewriting will diminish the drive quite rapidly vs the std HDD available atm, PLUS, if U defrag, along with any other std maintenance of any box and its components, it will wear out in HALF the time or sometimes less.

Soooooooooo, until they have perfected the SSD scenario, my take and advice is,,,STAY THE HELL AWAY from this "trendy" product until it has been perfected beyond fault, at which time I may even use them for my rigs, but DEFINITELY not now and as I understand it not in the next 6 months either...........

Obviously your call, BUT I am trying to give you all a HEADS UP, because I can almost guarantee the SSD of now stats WILL fail and if you want to jump into new technology w/o a multitude of testing, throw away your hard earned money, the by all means be a free beta tester for the new SSD's BUT, please make them your secondary HDD and if you do not, then remember ONE thing when the "shit hits the fan" which wil be

I T O L D Y OU SO


DISCLAIMER - I do not work for, nor am I related to anyone to the best of my knowledge, that works for, has worked for, or represents, cisco, Linksys, or any of its affiliates, vendors, ortherwist the past\
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Woah, there. Don't yell, we'll get off your lawn.

In addition to what Tickle Me Emo posted, you need to understand that SSDs aren't part of some crazy new wave of the future. They've been around for a good long while, and they're built on other technologies that have been around for much longer. There's no consumer "beta testing," nor any lack of reliability testing at all with these products, and no chance that they'll start failing arbitrarily. The thing about solid-state hardware is that aside from environmental effects, the consequences of which are well known and not pertinent to the product, it's entirely possible to accurately simulate years of use in hours of testing, and of course this is done extensively before any product hits the market. The drives sold today will continue to outperform traditional mechanical drives for many years, and will likely outlive them as well.

It's funny that you should mention Cisco in your disclaimer. Bar none, and by miles and miles, solid-state storage in Cisco products has the highest failure rate of any solid-state storage implementation that I have ever worked with.

Not that the disclaimer is really necessary. Cisco are precisely the opposite of you. Not only do they embrace new technology; they also market and sell it before they've matured it.

[StarsMine]

Also why would you want to defrag a SSD?
it doesnt make them faster as memory isnt stored the way HDD are

[DeadEyeDeNNi$]

The Cisco disclaimer was form an earlier post that was actually on topic a while back, and the part about the defrag was mentioned in a article that claimed execessive wear + tear, other than that the RAM issue got kinda lost I guess



Anyway, good sound opinionated discussion, I enjoyed it and learned a few things along the way...

[Tickle Me Emo]

Discussion is fun. As for the RAM issue, 4GB is enough for almost any single modern application, but if you do a lot of multi-tasking go with 8GB (can also somewhat future-proof your build). If you're worried about being able to upgrade down the road, go with 2x4GB sticks, and leave 2 slots open for an additional 8GB later. Those 4GB sticks are still coming down in price, I'd really not recommend putting all 16 in at once. It doesn't matter if all 4 are matched sticks or if you have 2 different brands, the memory is dual channel, not quad channel. As long as each dual channel set is the same it will run fine.

[DeadEyeDeNNi$]

Discussion is fun. As for the RAM issue, 4GB is enough for almost any single modern application, but if you do a lot of multi-tasking go with 8GB (can also somewhat future-proof your build). If you're worried about being able to upgrade down the road, go with 2x4GB sticks, and leave 2 slots open for an additional 8GB later. Those 4GB sticks are still coming down in price, I'd really not recommend putting all 16 in at once. It doesn't matter if all 4 are matched sticks or if you have 2 different brands, the memory is dual channel, not quad channel. As long as each dual channel set is the same it will run fine.

Actually I'm just going to add 1 more matching 2g stick to make it 8g for now at $32 then later I'll do the 16 gig when/if needed (unless the laptop becomes outdated) with the 4g stix which was my intention all along but no reason to spend the extra money atm.

Thx