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== No a constructive use of language. ==


The sentence "Now a days are also available in the market to make sure it's availability for all PC/Laptop users." is not a constructive use of English as a language... Nowadays, its, dubious reference unclear what the message of this statement should be, if any. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 20:45, 14 December 2020 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
== Contentious ==


== This article desperately needs to be updated ==
This page is very contentious. Could it be made to read less as a defense of HDD and more informative. That'd be great.] (]) 19:59, 28 May 2016 (UTC)


Title.
:Contentious? The article states SSDs are way faster, but way more expensive than HDDs. Can you give examples of what needs improving? --] (]) 21:02, 15 June 2016 (UTC)


From what I've seen, here are a few things that have changed since 2017/18:
: Concur. Please give specific examples of where you think it reads "as a defense of HDD". ] (]) 15:54, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
* Average SSD price is usually about 25c per gigabyte or even less on cheaper models, like QLC or SATA drives
* 120GB SSDs are practically impossible to find today. The minimum size that can be easily found today is 256GB, which itself has become increasingly rare
* SSDs can commonly be found up to 8TB, or in rare cases 16TB
* No modern consumer SSD has a data throughput of 200MB/s, where'd that come from? Typically, the minimum is 600MB/s (for SATA drives). As for the maximum, that's hard to say. My drive reaches 6-10GB/s write speeds often, and read speeds are nearly double that, sometimes hitting 16GB/s which is the maximum throughput for the modern NVMe standard if I'm not mistaken. On average, however, it seems that the max write speed is 4-6GB/s. Unsure about read speeds
* Fragmentation is a problem on basically every single modern FS. However, NTFS is just an extreme case. All filesystems fragment, but usually aren't as bad as NTFS


Well there it is. This is, of course, only my personal findings, but I can try and find actual sources for these if necessary. Some stuff could also have better clarification and wording but that's unrelated I guess. ] (]) 20:03, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
== Susceptibility to magnetic fields ==


I've seen some drives cost less than 10 cents per gigabyte. Still, the thing about 30 cents per gigabyte on average is definitely inaccurate. ] (]) 19:32, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
is bad. The cited reference includes some talk on the subject, but lacks any expert statements. At best it includes a few people who ''claim'' hard drives were damaged by magnets, but I doubt many of the individuals are experts. The magnetic fields required for writing to a modern hard drive are ''very'' intense. My understanding is you could put a rare earth magnet directly onto a modern disk platter and the magnetic field of the magnet would ''fail'' to damage any data (instead dust and tiny scratches from the contact might well damage the platter). ] (]) 01:40, 21 June 2016 (UTC)


I think the Linux section might be outdated as well, since on my modern installation the default scheduler is one optimized for SSD usage. ] (]) 16:04, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
: Hello! You're right, thank you for pointing it out! The reference was a low-quality one, so I went ahead and {{Diff|Solid-state drive|726298485|726255617|made the changes}} that provided accurate information and much better references. &mdash;&nbsp;]&nbsp;(]&nbsp;&#124;&nbsp;]) 08:42, 21 June 2016 (UTC)


I absolutely agree that this article needs to be updated. From my point of view, for example, the missing developments since 2017/18 and the years before in the field of SSDs can be added for example as follows: Actual replacement of HDDs by SSDs started maybe in 2010, when at the same time HDD unit shipments peaked at about 650m units. By 2014 roughly 40m SSDs where sold compared to about 550m HDDs. Over the next years, serious volume replacement took place and by 2020/2021 there were more SSD units sold than HDDs. ] (]) 13:42, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
:: Those are decent, but this these mean that portion of the article needs fixing. Ideally I'd link to sections 4 and the epilogues of the first link (Peter Gutmann paper), which effectively say modern disks (>1GB) are essentially immune to external magnetic fields. The kjmagnetics reads like an amateur experiment (not necessarily bad, but be careful of conclusions!) and says the same thing, their report of mechanical scrapping could well have been due to distorting the case of the drive rather than anything having to do with properties of the magnetic field. "Very old hard drives (less than a gigabyte) may have been at some risk from external magnetic fields, but any drive larger than a gigabyte is essentially immune to external magnetic fields"? ] (]) 20:09, 21 June 2016 (UTC)


== /r/ requesting to expose samsung 850 / 860 / 870 evo 2.5" drives' technical specs. ==
::: Hm, I'm not sure that 1&nbsp;GB is specified in references as a clear capacity-based division between susceptible and resistant drives... Am I missing something? &mdash;&nbsp;]&nbsp;(]&nbsp;&#124;&nbsp;]) 13:52, 24 June 2016 (UTC)


I cannot find microcontroller, cache memory and NAND litography information from the internet.
:::: Indeed, 'tis not. The reference was stating post-1990 hard drives were pretty well immune. Bit more recollection, I think 100MB drives were coming out around then, so that may be a better rough guide. The real issue is larger drives have to be less susceptible otherwise the write process would corrupt nearby bits (therefore storage size is a better guide than manufacture date). I don't have any references other than my memory. ] (]) 22:23, 25 June 2016 (UTC)


To the ]. ] (]) 15:23, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
== Hard drives and altitude ==


== photos: how big are devices ==
] needs a substantial adjustment. As the cited source notes, ''many'' hard drives have an altitude limit of 12000 meters above sea level, '''but''' drives designed for high-altitude operation are readily available from manufacturers. This is also becoming less true, helium-filled hard drives are taking over for large capacity hard drives and if they're impervious to helium, high-altitudes are unlikely to be an issue. The mention of the breather hole should be merged with this. ] (]) 01:30, 24 June 2016 (UTC)


It would be nice to see at a glance how big devices in the pictures are.
: As always, we'd need references that helium-filled drives can also work properly on high altitudes. &mdash;&nbsp;]&nbsp;(]&nbsp;&#124;&nbsp;]) 13:57, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Eg include one inch ruler, or USA dime.
⚫ Bill ] (]) 16:05, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
: A familiar object would be good. Inches and dimes are unfamiliar to most readers of English Misplaced Pages. Centimetres (or even centimeters) would work just fine. ] (]) 20:59, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
:We could start by adding dimensions to captions. ~] (]) 13:51, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
::If dimensions are added then in conformance with the state of this art, I suggest dimensions be given in mm and converted to inches. I suspect most readers are familiar with both sets but I guess there are far more inch-only than mm-only readers of this English Misplaced Pages. ] (]) 15:31, 24 August 2022 (UTC)


== SLC, MLC and TLC NAND == == Linux Buy Telegram members zosmm.com ==


I absolutely agree that this article needs to be updated. From my point of view, for example, the missing developments since 2017/18 and the years before in the field of SSDs can be added for example as follows: Actual replacement of HDDs by SSDs started maybe in 2010, when at the same time HDD unit shipments peaked at about 650m units. By 2014 roughly 40m SSDs where sold compared to about 550m HDDs. Over the next years, serious volume replacement took place and by 2020/2021 there were more SSD units sold than HDDs. BenediktKlaas (talk) 13:42, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
Should this not be included in the article?
] (]) 14:15, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
http://www.speedguide.net/faq/slc-mlc-or-tlc-nand-for-solid-state-drives-406
⚫ ] (]) 14:41, 25 August 2016 (UTC)


== Tidbits eliminated in the article ==
== TBW ==


Greatest storage limit of solid-state drives.
I have seen the term TBW used in SSD specifications and came here to try to find out what it meant. I was disappointed. I eventually discovered that it stood for Terabytes Written in reference to an SSD's expected lifetime. Please can one of the article's main editors add this. ] (]) 13:03, 16 November 2016 (UTC)


IDE, 2.5 inch: 1 TB (Renice Technology)<br>
== Graphics ==
SATA, 2.5 inch: 15.36 TB (TeamGroup)<br>
The most intuitive dysfunction refers to the moving parts in an HDD. Some people are unclear on that through influence only. As a matter of fact, it IS known that there are no moving parts in an SDD, like the disk found in the HDD, which IS slower than an SSD. For future reference try checking out how an SSD IS like a disc. <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 12:17, 21 August 2017 (UTC)</small>
M.2 SATA: 2 TB (Western Digital)<br>
M.2 NVMe: 8 TB (Sabrent)


==Misnomer?==
== Alignment in Wikitables ==
Isn’t the very term “solid-state drive” an oxymoron; I mean isn’t the distinguishing characteristic of solid-state storage devices that they got rid of the mechanical drive mechanism altogether..  —] (]) 02:04, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

I think the data looks better in the section I edited (30/12/2017), but would look better still if the colon's were aligned instead of simply centering the text.

In MathJax this is `\begin{align} ... &: ... &: ... \end{align}`, with the ampersand aligning the next character, in this case the colons, but is it possible with Wiki markup?

] (]) 07:57, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

== This article confuses the M.2 form factor (family of form factors) with the NVMe protocol ==

There are statements regarding, e.g., the speed of ] drives, which are only true when the M.2 drive uses the ] protocol, while overlooking the fact that other M.2 drives use the ] protocol. (I believe the term "protocol" is more appropriate than "interface" here, and ] is something else again.)

I'm having a first pass at correcting the issue, but someone else who's more informed on the subject should improve the article further.

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No a constructive use of language.

The sentence "Now a days external SSD drives are also available in the market to make sure it's availability for all PC/Laptop users." is not a constructive use of English as a language... Nowadays, its, dubious reference unclear what the message of this statement should be, if any. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.211.78.249 (talk) 20:45, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

This article desperately needs to be updated

Title.

From what I've seen, here are a few things that have changed since 2017/18:

  • Average SSD price is usually about 25c per gigabyte or even less on cheaper models, like QLC or SATA drives
  • 120GB SSDs are practically impossible to find today. The minimum size that can be easily found today is 256GB, which itself has become increasingly rare
  • SSDs can commonly be found up to 8TB, or in rare cases 16TB
  • No modern consumer SSD has a data throughput of 200MB/s, where'd that come from? Typically, the minimum is 600MB/s (for SATA drives). As for the maximum, that's hard to say. My drive reaches 6-10GB/s write speeds often, and read speeds are nearly double that, sometimes hitting 16GB/s which is the maximum throughput for the modern NVMe standard if I'm not mistaken. On average, however, it seems that the max write speed is 4-6GB/s. Unsure about read speeds
  • Fragmentation is a problem on basically every single modern FS. However, NTFS is just an extreme case. All filesystems fragment, but usually aren't as bad as NTFS

Well there it is. This is, of course, only my personal findings, but I can try and find actual sources for these if necessary. Some stuff could also have better clarification and wording but that's unrelated I guess. Swirl0 (talk) 20:03, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

I've seen some drives cost less than 10 cents per gigabyte. Still, the thing about 30 cents per gigabyte on average is definitely inaccurate. Swirl0 (talk) 19:32, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

I think the Linux section might be outdated as well, since on my modern installation the default scheduler is one optimized for SSD usage. 46.142.185.73 (talk) 16:04, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

I absolutely agree that this article needs to be updated. From my point of view, for example, the missing developments since 2017/18 and the years before in the field of SSDs can be added for example as follows: Actual replacement of HDDs by SSDs started maybe in 2010, when at the same time HDD unit shipments peaked at about 650m units. By 2014 roughly 40m SSDs where sold compared to about 550m HDDs. Over the next years, serious volume replacement took place and by 2020/2021 there were more SSD units sold than HDDs. BenediktKlaas (talk) 13:42, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

/r/ requesting to expose samsung 850 / 860 / 870 evo 2.5" drives' technical specs.

I cannot find microcontroller, cache memory and NAND litography information from the internet.

To the List of Samsung Solid-State-Drives. 0dorkmann (talk) 15:23, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

photos: how big are devices

It would be nice to see at a glance how big devices in the pictures are. Eg include one inch ruler, or USA dime. Bill W102102 (talk) 16:05, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

A familiar object would be good. Inches and dimes are unfamiliar to most readers of English Misplaced Pages. Centimetres (or even centimeters) would work just fine. Dondervogel 2 (talk) 20:59, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
We could start by adding dimensions to captions. ~Kvng (talk) 13:51, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
If dimensions are added then in conformance with the state of this art, I suggest dimensions be given in mm and converted to inches. I suspect most readers are familiar with both sets but I guess there are far more inch-only than mm-only readers of this English Misplaced Pages. Tom94022 (talk) 15:31, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Linux Buy Telegram members zosmm.com

I absolutely agree that this article needs to be updated. From my point of view, for example, the missing developments since 2017/18 and the years before in the field of SSDs can be added for example as follows: Actual replacement of HDDs by SSDs started maybe in 2010, when at the same time HDD unit shipments peaked at about 650m units. By 2014 roughly 40m SSDs where sold compared to about 550m HDDs. Over the next years, serious volume replacement took place and by 2020/2021 there were more SSD units sold than HDDs. BenediktKlaas (talk) 13:42, 24 November 2021 (UTC) Buy Telegram members 2A02:E0:8738:7900:1DB0:F151:816E:4762 (talk) 14:15, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Tidbits eliminated in the article

Greatest storage limit of solid-state drives.

IDE, 2.5 inch: 1 TB (Renice Technology)
SATA, 2.5 inch: 15.36 TB (TeamGroup)
M.2 SATA: 2 TB (Western Digital)
M.2 NVMe: 8 TB (Sabrent)

Misnomer?

Isn’t the very term “solid-state drive” an oxymoron; I mean isn’t the distinguishing characteristic of solid-state storage devices that they got rid of the mechanical drive mechanism altogether..  —Arrandale Westmere (talk) 02:04, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

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