Don't let yourself get confused by all those acronyms.
A "SSD" is like a harddrive made of flash-storage.
A conventional HD uses spinning platters.
Just think of it as an overlarge CompactFlash-Card, or a SecureDigital-Card, the ones people use in their digital cameras.
My bet is an 80GB SSD, even if it is an unusual size for flash-storage.
Yeah, i understand SSD means "Solid State Drive," and that conventional HDDs use spinning platters. But, if the SSD is just a high capacity non-volatile, memory chip (or multiple high capacity non-volatile memory chips), and if it offered "nearly instant boot times," then wouldn't that mean that everything else would also be accessed nearly instantly, and that RAM would then be unnecessary?
According to his widow he did not, as reported in the preface of one book, have his name legally changed to "e. e. cummings". He wrote to his French translator that he preferred the capitalized version. They wrote to Cummings on 27 February 1951 ... "are you E.E.Cummings, ee cummings, or what?(so far as the title page is concerned)wd u like title page all in lowercase?"
The poet himself replied replied on 1 March 1951: "E.E.Cummings, unless your printer prefers E. E. Cummings/ titlepage up to you."
So he personally preferred and used the uppercase (sometimes with space, sometimes without) in all his signings.
Yeah, i understand SSD means "Solid State Drive," and that conventional HDDs use spinning platters. But, if the SSD is just a high capacity non-volatile, memory chip (or multiple high capacity non-volatile memory chips), and if it offered "nearly instant boot times," then wouldn't that mean that everything else would also be accessed nearly instantly, and that RAM would then be unnecessary?
Nope. The transfer rate of storage devices is till vastly lower than Ram.
DDR2-800 has a transfer rate of 6.4GB/s
SSD has a transfer rate of just 50MB/s
SSD is a good deal faster than traditional mobile drives though:
Instant on will refer to hibernation or something. An SSD has no moving parts so it doesn't have to spin up or anything and it won't get damaged on the move.
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My guess is a 80 or 160GB iPod style 1.8" conventional drive, with a 4Gb flash buffer.
(flash cache!)
C.
do they have fast enough, rpm, drives yet for 160gb at 1.8"?
Don't let yourself get confused by all those acronyms.
A "SSD" is like a harddrive made of flash-storage.
A conventional HD uses spinning platters.
Just think of it as an overlarge CompactFlash-Card, or a SecureDigital-Card, the ones people use in their digital cameras.
My bet is an 80GB SSD, even if it is an unusual size for flash-storage.
Yeah, i understand SSD means "Solid State Drive," and that conventional HDDs use spinning platters. But, if the SSD is just a high capacity non-volatile, memory chip (or multiple high capacity non-volatile memory chips), and if it offered "nearly instant boot times," then wouldn't that mean that everything else would also be accessed nearly instantly, and that RAM would then be unnecessary?
No he didn't.
According to his widow he did not, as reported in the preface of one book, have his name legally changed to "e. e. cummings". He wrote to his French translator that he preferred the capitalized version. They wrote to Cummings on 27 February 1951 ... "are you E.E.Cummings, ee cummings, or what?(so far as the title page is concerned)wd u like title page all in lowercase?"
The poet himself replied replied on 1 March 1951: "E.E.Cummings, unless your printer prefers E. E. Cummings/ titlepage up to you."
So he personally preferred and used the uppercase (sometimes with space, sometimes without) in all his signings.
More on the debate here ... http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/caps.htm
Now back to the madness.
If he preferred it, then why the confusion in the first place? Typesetter's error?...(too lazy to read the link... sorry
Yeah, i understand SSD means "Solid State Drive," and that conventional HDDs use spinning platters. But, if the SSD is just a high capacity non-volatile, memory chip (or multiple high capacity non-volatile memory chips), and if it offered "nearly instant boot times," then wouldn't that mean that everything else would also be accessed nearly instantly, and that RAM would then be unnecessary?
Nope. The transfer rate of storage devices is till vastly lower than Ram.
DDR2-800 has a transfer rate of 6.4GB/s
SSD has a transfer rate of just 50MB/s
SSD is a good deal faster than traditional mobile drives though:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/...icleId=9025278
Instant on will refer to hibernation or something. An SSD has no moving parts so it doesn't have to spin up or anything and it won't get damaged on the move.