SSDs for Under $100!

[reggie14]

I know there are some people on these forums interested in using solid state drives for their client PCs. Newegg has some older models with pretty big mail-in rebates right now. There's a 30gig drive for under $100 after rebate. Check them out here.

Performance isn't great (particularly the write speeds), but they're plenty fast for a client box.

[CollinR]

This is more then enough room too.
http://www.logicsupply.com/products/fdm40xdi4g

If you built a Linux placeshifter box it may be much less too, if you dig on that site thyat have direct insert SATA drives too.

[wado1971]

Originally Posted by CollinR

This is more then enough room too.
http://www.logicsupply.com/products/fdm40xdi4g

If you built a Linux placeshifter box it may be much less too, if you dig on that site thyat have direct insert SATA drives too.

Very cool - thanks for the post. I've been looking at the Addonics solutions but the SATA flash modules look like a cleaner AND cheaper solution. Just need to check if they're seen as a boot drive.

Edit: Just thought I'd add another link for those interested in this approach. http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4255

[CollinR]

All SATA devices are bootable that I know of, that compact flash/IDE I posted is also a "fixed" disk and bootable.

Just becareful when you use CF from digital cameras or anything with a USB interface, vista readyboot internal flash might be cool but I can't get mine through boot.

[bcjenkins]

Originally Posted by CollinR

This is more then enough room too.
http://www.logicsupply.com/products/fdm40xdi4g

If you built a Linux placeshifter box it may be much less too, if you dig on that site thyat have direct insert SATA drives too.

Any reason to not use this as a Linux server OS drive? It would free up an additional port for a disk to add to my raid array.

B

[CollinR]

Well honestly yes and no...

It's ideally suited to being a boot drive but it has a limited write lifespan so you would need to put your swap and temp files somewhere else or not use them at all and double up your RAM.

I have little to no linux experience (playing with CentOS right now) but in Windows it is rather complicated to get writes to an absolute minimum. Then you can borrow somw goodness from XPe and make the disk write protected and you are basically good to go for stability.

Some of those direct insert IDE disks have a mechanical write protect switch like floppies did.

I have a readyboost drive I trade for linux help in areas outside of sage. It's a direct insert onto an internal USB header. Bascally a thumbdrive for internal use.