Re: [Sheflug] Netbook Storage Options

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom

>I've been looking at netbooks for a while, and I'm quite taken with  
>the new Dell Mini 10v: £199 for the base package, with Ubuntu.

These are very good.

>However there are a couple of options. The base package comes with an  
>8 Gbyte SSD storage device. For an additional £40 I could either: a)  
>expand that to 16 Gbyte, or b) have a hard drive instead (at least 
>120  Gbyte). What would you all do? I had thought that SSDs were 
>always faster than hard drives but I recently read a review of SSDs 
>in Micro Mart which found (admittedly in the context of Windows) that 
>there was a great variation in performance. The trouble with ordering 
>an SSD is that you don't know anything about the performance specs, 
>whereas the hard drive will be much more of known quantity (It would 
>be a 5400 rpm drive).

The SSD vs HD arguement doesn't really exist.  Maybe if you were to 
hammer a laptop beyond it's limit.  My EeePC works fine.  I've just 
slammed it up against three walls and several concrete floors whilst 
running from check in to gate 65 at Berlin Schoenefeld airport.  My 
bag unzipped itself twice whilst I was running to catch a Ryanair 
flight.  Before that it had already done several thousand miles and 
been slammed into god knows what.  It continues to work.  I'm not sure 
that the old fashioned HD would survive that.


-- 
Richard

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