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Originally Posted by Rathji
Solid State is up to 8 times faster, uses less power. Good upgrade for 50 bucks. Personally, I am more concerned about the lower number of total read/writes before the drive craters. Although with a 2-3 year lifetime on a laptop like this you probably wont be using it long enough to have to deal with that.
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Solid state uses about the same amount of power as a laptop drive in their current incarnations, believe it or not. Its quite amazing, actually, how optimized laptop hard drives are, you are looking at about 2.5 watts to run a standard 2.5" drive.
And although they haven't been in the wild long enough to really see how they will hold up, with modern wear levelling techniques, and the greatly increased read/write cycles available on current flash drives, you'd have to write to them continuously for years before you wear them out, in theory. I used to worry about this issue as well, but you are far better off just using the machine and not thinking about it, it's not going to wear out before the machine is obsolete. EMC is putting flash in their high end storage equipment, if its good enough for them, its going to be fine in a netbook.