Solid state drives and ZBrush

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hi I'm considering getting a new laptop and cant decide weather to go with a solid state hard drive or a traditional one.

I have herd that solid state drives can have slower read/write times on large files which makes me think they would be less good for operating zbrush. Yet they are meant to have faster read speeds for small files which made me wonder if they might be better.

So I was just wondering which would be better, solid state or a normal hard drive.


Any advise would be appreciated

thanks

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here's an interesting review from 2007 that suggests for the most part SSDs and HDDs are equal in many respects. the interesting part of the article suggests that SSDs are 76% faster on hard drive intensive tasks--which is a big plus. this article was posted over 6 months ago, and electronics usually only get better. i'm going for an SSD in my next 17" macbook pro.

hope that helps

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=10159

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thanks a lot for the link. quite useful


last question
SSD's are said to have a limited rewrite cycle around 100,000 before they degrade to much to store data. has any one got any ideas how long that would last (in years?) with average computer/zbrush/cg use.

or if you have got one how long have you had it and does it still work well

thanks again

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well, these new toshiba SSDs, which are probably what exist in the new 17" unibody macbook pros have a claimed lifespan of 1,000,000 hours/114 years.

i think you'll outgrow the technology before it burns up... lol

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2007/12/toshiba_introduces_3_new_ssd_f.html

this article written over a year ago gives an estimate of 51 years

http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html

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114 years :lol: sweet


thanks alot for your help, im fairly sure im going solid state now.

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yeah, no hurry to worry

welcome ;)