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Via have made an official press release about the nc20, which has already been covered in numerous tech sites.
The one thing that caught my eye was “storage options include either a solid state disk or a SATA hard disk drive”, which echoes what was seen in the manuals released some time ago.
So, I wonder how long before the nc20 is offered with an ssd?
I’d really like an ssd, but they’re damn expensive by themselves, but seem to be more reasonably priced when included in a lappy/netbook, so this might be something worth waiting for (but I wants one noooooowwwww 🙁 ).And still no new news or images of the nc20 in black…
make sure the SSD is not USB based cause those wear out quickly so they are not that eternal as they seem
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make sure the SSD is not USB based cause those wear out quickly so they are not that eternal as they seem
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What do you mean by “USB based”. The drive should be connected via SATA (or less likely PATA) not USB. Though the type of connection it uses shouldn’t make any difference as far as the life span of the drive is concerned.Did you mean MLC (Multi-Level Cell) versus SLC (Single-Level Cell)?
i meant to say ‘flash based’ instead of ‘usb based’
the wiki page says the flash based are the cheapest SSD and they wear out:
…but they don’t “wear out”, not in our life time anyway doing ordinary writing and rewriting .
In the 3rd example in the link below, which is the worst scenario of the three presented, the Sandisk memory card rewritten every 5 seconds reaches its “statistical limit for endurance” (i.e. early sign of wear in Sandisk’s parlance) in 79.3 years!
http://www.sandisk.com/assets/file/oem/whitepapersandbrochures/rs-mmc/wpaperwearlevelv1.0.pdf
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