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I have an iBook G4 and was wondering if they make an SSD I can put in it. |
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IDE ssd's are really overpriced especially since the technology is cheaper PS if you have a desktop computer, you can get a SATA to ide adapter from ebay, there like $1 and work pretty well (only problem is during the bios detection step, it will hang there for a while). It's for a laptop. Cause I just bump is a lil and the HDD stops reading. And SDD are faster. Prove it. In order to prove it, you need to go through every single SSD in existence and compare it speed-wise to every single HDD in existence. Prove that SSDs are faster. Don't they use less power because they don't have to move physical parts? Now you need to prove it by comparing every solid state drive (SSD, not SDD) to every hard disk drive in terms of: idle power and load power. You might be shocked. a quality HDD is faster than a cheap SSD (and the quality HDD is often cheaper than a cheap SSD) Many SSD's use less power than a HDD but there are some SSD's that will use more power (there most likely out of your price range unless you own your own oil company in order to fund getting a SSD) SSDs idle cooler, but when on load run hotter. Furthermore, you can't defragment an SSD. Try telling me they're faster, cooler and consume less electricity when the drive starts getting so fragmented that the cache memory becomes superfluous. The SSD will still populate the cache memory with sequential information. Since the drive is heavily fragmented this process will be useless. Furthermore, the very fact that it's not possible to defragment the drive on the level of the underlying representation means when your SSD gets fragmented, you must erase the drive in order to restore its performance. Okay so go with a fast HDD cheaper and faster then a cheap SSD? in your case, you wont find a fast ssd in any price range for your laptop as it does not support sata. but on top of that, even if you did have sata, if you get a cheap SSD, you will have worst performance than if you were to get a quality yet cheaper HDD many cheap SSD's will have read speeds close to that of your average HDD but write speeds that really suck, and on to of that you are getting much less storage. PS before buying any drive, always search for benchmarks. most advertised speeds are inaccurate. I had an ssd before by OCZ and I had to return it because even though they claimed nearly 200MB/s read speeds, it only did that for about 5 seconds before dropping slower than my 1TB western digital drive luckily refunded my money and didn't charge me a restocking fee. Cheap HDDs aren't necessarily faster than cheap SSDs. Benchmarks can be twisted to report extremely unlikely scenarios, differ based on host drive controllers, etc. Don't just check out a benchmark. Ask a professional to DO a benchmark, using your system. That might be slightly more reliable, but it'll still give you a very narrow scenario which may be biased.
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What does "SDD" stand for?
SSD stands for Solid State Drive
Someone edit the Q. it says SDD when its supposed to be SSD
Leapo: I asked what "SDD" stands for, not "SSD". I figure the author meant "SSD", but I'm not 100% sure ;) All of the answers make that assumption.
Ya meant SSD just relized today that I was wrong about the acronym. lol