Posted 12/02/2008 at 02:12:57am

I remember reading up on the lifespan of the chips used in thumb drives being somewhat more finite than other storage mediums - like hard disks.

The quote "3 to 5 year" lifespan for hard disks seems awfully inacurate.  I still have every hard drive owned since 1992 and they all still work and have had 0 data loss (granted I can find a controller card and mobo to boot them up with =)

Thumb drives on the other hand.... well, not so lucky, and only been using those for the last few years.

 
My point being:

I wonder how different the chips in these ssds are from thumb drive chips.  At this point I'm sketched to put anything important on an ssd before more time proves otherwise.

m1

Posted 11/23/2007 at 02:31:20am

Cool thanks for the article, I'm surprised to be the first comment. I've been looking for opinions, techniques and angles on how others have been keeping their collections. m1

Posted 11/18/2007 at 11:49:11pm

lol, classic

Posted 11/13/2007 at 10:01:18pm

Those scores look weird, they don't really match up. I believe they are real, but you should really do a bunch of runs and gather the average for each of those categories. Aside from that, you forgot to mention one of the reasons this drive could be a complete disappointment to the person buying for the triple interface, eSATA is a SEPERATE module that you have to swap out with the "USB/Firewire" module. That is not a good feature for a portable drive - just one more thing you have to carry around - gay.

Posted 10/28/2007 at 02:13:58am

So I hear Plextor no longer manufactures drives. Did we find out who made this particular model? I wonder how much longer Plextor will be able to charge a premium for their name when most of their drives end up being (much) cheaper makes such as Lite-on, Pioneer, Phillips, etc...