Re: [PCWorks] Burning CDs
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 09:54:26 -0600
>As for electromagnetic fields, hard drives
>can be affected by them as well.
Sure, but we were talking about convenient **portable** storage
methods other than optical media. ;-)
-Clint
God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://www.OrpheusComputing.com
http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kaulback"
Solid state drives are used in the enterprise widely, and are
common in
the new netbooks as well. One prime factor in ssd's is that
they are far
more shock proof than hdd's, try dropping a hard drive and see
how well
it works after, do the same drop with an ssd and your data is
safe. They
have higher average time between failure, near 1,000,000 hours.
As for electromagnetic fields, hard drives can be affected by
them as
well. Put a hdd next to an electric motor and it will be
affected as it
can slow or stop altogether. The biggest problem I see right
now is the
price, a 128gb ssd goes for over $400.00. Size for consumers is
at about
250 gb, in the enterprise there are 1.5tb and bigger ssd's.
Now some great features of ssd's are low power consumption,
noiseless
operation due to no moving parts, error correction, and they
can be
encrypted even when removed from their system (laptop or
desktop). Plus
they have multiple interfaces available: pcmcia, usb, pata,
sata, etc.
I like the idea of plugging a fast and secure drive into the
pcmcia slot
my laptop that won't suck power or heat up too much.
It all comes down to proper handling, one doesn't leave
cd/dvd's laying
loose on a desk or the floor, they are kept in cases or folders
to
protect them. Leave a hard drive loose on a desk or near crt
monitors
too long and they won't satisfy your needs, so one uses an
enclosure of
some kind. And you don't leave a memory stick in a usb port all
the time
through successive reboots (though I have run one through a
wash load
and it still works flawlessly).
Sorry for the long winded rant ;)
Peter Kaulback
David Grossman wrote:
> Actually, I'm very optimistic about the future of solid state
> hard drives.
> As you wrote in your other email, solid state technology is
> not ready for
> prime time. That's true. The technology is too new, so there
> are bugs in it
> now.
>
> However (and as opposed to CD/DVD technology) the industry is
> working on
> solid state technology and is trying to improve it. That
> should make a great
> deal of difference in the future.
>
> David Grossman
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>>
>> Yeah that's because there's nothing to replace it. All
>> those
>> flash drives and media cards are sensitive to
>> electromagnetic
>> fields. Get too close to one, and your data is fried.
>> That's
>> why I use optical media, and media cards, and HD's. There's
>> solid state HD's out now, but I think they are just like
>> memory
>> cards, too sensitive to EM fields.
>> -Clint
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Grossman"
>>
>> Nonetheless, CD/DVD media has withstood the test of time,
>> and
>> it is still
>> very popular. By now, it should have been replaced by
>> something
>> better - and
>> less flaky.
>> David Grossman
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