Solid-State drive worth it

[Wayne431]

I was thinking of buying a solid state drive for my hp laptop ? Is this worth of buying solid state drive putting the extra money on it , will there be boost in the performance can i notice it ? have any one experience it !
Thanks for the reply

[Rawko]

Yes Solid-State drive is worth it , here are some plus point: the case for SSDs is much more zippier and will last a lot longer. and can it doesnt have the moving parts of a conventional hard drive, that makes them less likely to break or bumped.Computers with SSD can boot up twice as fast and writes data up to 8 times faster as those with a traditional hard drive.

[Killen]

The original usage of the term solid-state (from solid-state physics) refers to the use of semiconductor devices rather than electron tubes, but in this context, has been adopted to distinguish solid-state electronics from electromechanical devices as well.An SSD using SRAM or DRAM (instead of flash memory) is often called a RAM-drive, not to be confused with a RAM disk.

[RoninBlade]

Comparison with the hard disk

Advantage

• Faster start-up, as no spin-up is required (RAM & flash).
• Typically fast random access for reading, as there is no read/write head to move (RAM & flash).
  
• Extremely low read latency times, as SSD seek-times are orders of magnitude lower than the best hard disk drives, as of 2008.[23] (RAM) In applications where hard disk seeks are the limiting factor, this results in faster boot and application launch times (see Amdahl's law)[24] (RAM & flash).
• Relatively deterministic read performance:[25] unlike hard disk drives, performance of SSDs is almost constant and deterministic across the entire storage. This is because the seek time is almost instant and does not depend on the physical location of the data, and so, file fragmentation has almost no impact on read performance.

No noise: a lack of moving parts makes SSDs completely silent, apart from cooling fans on a few high-end and high-capacity SSDs.

Disadvantages

• Cost: As of mid-2008, SSD prices are still considerably higher per gigabyte than are comparable conventional hard drives: consumer-grade drives are typically US$1.50 to US$3.45 per GB for flash drives and over US$80.00 per GB for RAM-based compared to about US$0.38 or less per gigabyte for hard drives.
• Capacity: As of 2008, far lower than that of conventional hard drives (Flash SSD capacity is predicted to increase rapidly, with experimental drives of 1 TB, but hard drive capacity also continues to expand, and hard drives are likely to maintain their capacity edge for some time)

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