{"id":649,"date":"2006-08-28T07:15:53","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T14:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/034441cf4b0489edc95654f5da9fb798"},"modified":"2006-08-28T07:15:53","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T14:15:53","slug":"ssd-beating-traditional-storage-into-submission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"SSD beating traditional storage into submission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/TopNews\/~3\/16940702\/article.do\">Solid-State Disk: Soul of The New Machines<\/a>, where Robert Mitchell talks about solid state disks and their move into the laptop arena.   <\/p>\n<p>There are some obvious benefits -- better performance and longer battery life, for example. The lower power requirements and almost instantaneous 'on' speed mean that it makes a huge difference to the way you use your laptop.  <\/p>\n<p>The use of solid state memory for storage is increasing -- the MP3 player market was where it started and exploded, followed by the extended use in digital cameras and USB thumb drives.&nbsp; The size is shrinking and the capacity increasing --something nailed home for me this weekend when I bought a 1GB Memory Stick Micro (M2) card. It's smaller than my thumbnail, and almost a quarter of the size of the 1GB Memory Stick Pro I bought just last year my digital camera.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=cm0hIH\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=cm0hIH\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/17037865\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/TopNews\/~3\/16940702\/article.do\">Solid-State Disk: Soul of The New Machines<\/a>, where Robert Mitchell talks about solid state disks and their move into the laptop arena.   <\/p>\n<p>There are some obvious benefits &#8212; better performance and longer battery life, for example. The lower power requirements and almost instantaneous &#8216;on&#8217; speed mean that it makes a huge difference to the way you use your laptop.  <\/p>\n<p>The use of solid state memory for storage is increasing &#8212; the MP3 player market was where it started and exploded, followed by the extended use in digital cameras and USB thumb drives.&nbsp; The size is shrinking and the capacity increasing &#8211;something nailed home for me this weekend when I bought a 1GB Memory Stick Micro (M2) card. It&#8217;s smaller than my thumbnail, and almost a quarter of the size of the 1GB Memory Stick Pro I bought just last year my digital camera.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=cm0hIH\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=cm0hIH\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/17037865\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}