Astrotoy7 Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 I want to partition my brain so that I can put Ubuntu on it. You want that poo-brown all in your head... ugh Go for mint. Sexier. mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Yuthura Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 I'm still supporting the hard drive. Solid state drives are still WAY expensive and still are not quite up to matching the physical size per GB. You can almost pack 256 GB into a laptop drive, but that is still over twice as much for half the storage of a 500 GB hard drive. Solid state is still improving, but is still four times per GB compared to a hard drive. If performance is an issue, my suggestion would be a normal hard drive with a 12 GB solid state cache that would store data for instant access and a more massive/cheaper storage capacity. The issue with hard drive pricing is that there is a flat cost (about $40) and then a cheaper price per GB as you increase the capacity. Solid state has about a $5 flat cost and then $2 per GB that increases the denser you get. The price of 8 GB RAM is greater than the solid state drive in most laptops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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