Solid State Drives Are The Future - Comments Page 2

SSDs are the way of the future. SATA SSD's provide fantastic performance and the newer PCIexpress SSDs with the NVMe interface have much greater performance capabilities unhindered by the SATA 6Gbps limit.

SSDs are only going to get faster and cheaper.

Should I be concerned about switching power supply power draw, expecting a bigger power consumption. That is if modern PC's still use them,

Tracy: After the release of Win10 - and after she had installed it and then reverted to Win7 - I reinstalled Win7 from the original disks on my mother-in-law's PC when I replaced the HDD. There were no problems - no attempt to force the upgrade.

Tracy: It just occurred to me: I don't know what brand your computer is, but my MIL's Dell came with just recovery disks - I had a separate, full copy of Win7 available to do the re-installation from.

It's worth noting some older machines may need a BIOS upgrade to fully use SSD's. The refurbished Lenovo T61p I've fitted one to has the SSD working but needs new BIOS to get the full speed.

Regarding the SSD drives, I was concerned when I read that they did not retain their stored data for long periods of time if they were disconnected from power. However, we do have some computers in our Production area, running Linux, that I have used the SSD units in, with great success. Those computers are only shutdown on Sundays, and they are not disconnected from AC power.