Solid State Drive

[parttimetechie]

Hey All,

I am building a computer in the next week that the customer wants a SSD 2.5" drive. I've never built a PC with an SSD in it. Couple of questions

Will the standard 2.5" drive bay in a case hold the drive alright?

Will the drive be susceptible to electro shock and data loss in a power failure or hard reset?

Does the SSD need to be insulated in the case any particular way?

Does the SSD need specific proprietary power or SATA cables to interface with a modern motherboard?

Thanks

 

[Robert]

Hey All,

I am building a computer in the next week that the customer wants a SSD 2.5" drive. I've never built a PC with an SSD in it. Couple of questions

Will the standard 2.5" drive bay in a case hold the drive alright?

Yes, it uses the same mounts as a regular 2.5" drive.

Will the drive be susceptible to electro shock and data loss in a power failure or hard reset?

I'm not 100%, but I would assume so.

Does the SSD need to be insulated in the case any particular way?

Not that I'm aware of, and not that I have done so on any build so far.

Does the SSD need specific proprietary power or SATA cables to interface with a modern motherboard?

Nope, standard SATA Data/Power connectors.

Thanks

NP.

 

[ATTech]

Lol @ the tag.

Treat an SSD like a regular hard drive with extremely good performance.

 

[parttimetechie]

so if I have to hard shut down the drive it won't lose data?

 

[ATS]

It will only lose data if that data is currently being written or in the cache, just like a physical drive.

 

[coco3_man]

so if I have to hard shut down the drive it won't lose data?

Pretend it is a regular hard drive and treat it as such. It will just be a very fast one. The only thing is, don't defrag it. For a technical reason, search google...

Tom

 

[parttimetechie]

Is it more susceptible being "fried" by a ESD or power shock?

 

[TopLevelComp]

No.

The downside to SSDs are the expected life spans of programmed/erase states of SSDs to Physical hard drives. Physical hard drives have a programmed/erase cycle of 1,000,000 or some extremely high number like that. SSDs on the other hand (Especially the brand new ones) have a programmed/erase rate of 5,000. Still, this can last a LONG LONG time before you completely run out your cycle, just beware of this if you're going to be constantly writing/erasing on the SSD.

Anand has a great article on this exact problem with SSDs: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4159/ocz-vertex-3-pro-preview-the-first-sf2500-ssd/2


Edit:
For your customer, tell him to NEVER defrag the SSD. Ever. Ever ever. It sounds counter-intuitive but it's wears the SSD down faster, giving it a shorter life.

 

[Swiper]

Some SSD's are coming with rails. So you can mount the drive in a 3.5" hard drive bay.

 

[bertie40]

Good thread.

It answered a number of questions I was going to look up.
Cheers


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