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4 Sep 2024 17:21:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New computer... Wish me luck  
From: Invisible
Date: 17 Feb 2010 04:08:57
Message: <4b7bb229$1@news.povray.org>
Fredrik Eriksson wrote:

> Most cheap SSDs are crap. Some have been shown to have worst-case 
> access-times of up to a half-second. A good SSD will beat any magnetic 
> disk hands down.

You would expect that an SSD, with absolutely no moving parts of any 
kind, would easily beat any conceivably mechanical device. I have no 
idea how the hell cheap SSDs can possibly manage to be slower.

Then again, even the term "cheap SSDs" is something of an oxymoron. I've 


4GB. You could just about fit your swap file on that, or maybe an entire 
Windows partition, but not much else.



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