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Comments on: Crucial solid-state drive passes vibrator test

So... 

Posted Saturday 12th January 2008 12:40 GMT

Dead Vulture

A device with no moving parts is more resistant to being shaken than a device with moving parts? Wow!

hmmm... 

Posted Saturday 12th January 2008 18:36 GMT

Paris Hilton

Given the title I was expecting to see another type of vibration production equipment and host of busty maidens, sorry technicians, to demonstrate...

so when does he change his name to ...` 

Posted Saturday 12th January 2008 21:45 GMT

Dead Vulture

... "Captain Obvious"??

Almost totally....... 

Posted Saturday 12th January 2008 23:41 GMT

......underwhelmed

He forgot 

Posted Sunday 13th January 2008 21:24 GMT

Unhappy

to mention that any hard work will kill the drive as its can only write to each block a limited amount of times...

sorry did I say hard work, when i realy mean Windows obsession with page file will kill it.

re: he forgot 

Posted Monday 14th January 2008 10:11 GMT

I beleve they have solved that problem or at least migated it I rewmber them saying they had incresed the limite up a factor of 100 they must of overwise they would not consider selling the product

Windows paging? 

Posted Monday 14th January 2008 10:26 GMT

I seem to remember that Linux is worse than windows for writing to a page file, hence the guide for ubuntu to cut down on page writes when using the eepc

Dave