gHacks technology news » solid state disk http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 How many hours have your hard disks been running ? http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/29/how-many-hours-have-your-hard-disks-been-running/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/29/how-many-hours-have-your-hard-disks-been-running/#comments Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:12:32 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5139 Can you tell me how many hours your hard disk or Solid State Disk has been running and how many times it has been powered on since you started using it in your computer ? My Samsung 1 TB hard drive was powered on 106 times and active for 814 hours since I build my new computer a few months ago.

How I know that ? I looked it up in the software Crystal Disk Info. This software basically displays all kind of information about hard drives and Solid State Disks and two that are not displayed in every other of that type are the two I mentioned above.

It does display all the usual information as well. Begins with the hard disk temperature, serial number, transfer mode, drive letters and supported features among other parameters. Two of the aforementioned parameters are worth a closer look if you are experiencing crashes or slow downs.

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The temperature of the hard drive can be a cause for system crashes. It if goes to high it can lead to data loss and errors. The transfer mode can be interesting if you think that your hard drive is not as fast as it should be. Check the supported transfer modes of your drive and compare them to the one that is currently being used for it. It might very well be that it’s not the fastest available.

Crystal Disk Info is a portable application that is compatible to Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows Server 2003 / 2008.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/29/how-many-hours-have-your-hard-disks-been-running/feed/ 18 Ridata introduces new Solid State Drives http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/08/ridata-introduces-new-solid-state-drives/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/08/ridata-introduces-new-solid-state-drives/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:34:53 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/08/ridata-introduces-new-solid-state-drives/ Finally we are seeing the long awaited progress in the Solid State Drives market. Ridata was the first company to announce three new 2.5″ SATA Solid State Drives in 32-, 64-, and 128GB capacities that have read speeds of up to 170 MB / per second and write speeds of up to 105 MB / per second at the Ces 2008.

We will probably see lots of announcements regarding Solid State Drives in the coming months and hopefully some huge price drops as well. As you might now I’m planning to buy one SSD for my soon to be build desktop computer to use it as my boot hard drive.

I think the problem that most users face at the moment is that many SSD don’t live up to the promise of faster speeds and that the new generation of SSD will deliver what they are expecting. It would be really awful to buy a 32 Gigabyte SSD for $600+ only to find out that it is slower than a normal 7200rpm SATA drive.

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Harvey Liu, Advanced Media President. “The read rate of our 2.5″ SATA SSD drive provides users with a phenomenally fast speed. For instance, it reduces boot up and seek times to mere seconds, while installation of new software programs can be accomplished in seconds rather than minutes

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