solid state external drive or normal spinning type?

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Hi, in choosing an external hard drive i have narrowed it down to a choice
between a small laptop type in an external case or a small portable solid
state type of 60
GB.

is there any advantage in getting the normal laptop type since the
solid state one has no moving parts; which i thought would have been an
advantage. but on the other hand if they were that much better i guess the
soldi state type would be fitted to laptops, but they are not.

any advice please about the relative merits of the two different types?
thanks.
 
I have not seen a very large solid state type at a reasonable cost. If you
have the dollars for a 60 gb solid state drive, this would be ideal. There
would be no mechanical parts, thus it would have a much greater endurance
for being knocked around.

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JANA
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Hi, in choosing an external hard drive i have narrowed it down to a choice
between a small laptop type in an external case or a small portable solid
state type of 60
GB.

is there any advantage in getting the normal laptop type since the
solid state one has no moving parts; which i thought would have been an
advantage. but on the other hand if they were that much better i guess the
soldi state type would be fitted to laptops, but they are not.

any advice please about the relative merits of the two different types?
thanks.
 
JANA wrote:
[replies trimmed to 24hrsupport.helldesk because question is of no special
relevance to "microsoft" or "ie6" related groups]
I have not seen a very large solid state type at a reasonable cost. If you
have the dollars for a 60 gb solid state drive, this would be ideal. There
would be no mechanical parts, thus it would have a much greater endurance
for being knocked around.
Click to expand...
But then, look at the specs .. usually flash memory is specified for around
100.000 overwrites. Sounds pretty much, but *just that one byte that counts
the seconds* will be affected first, like maybe main inode/FAT table
entries.
Just because I'm curous, how much to pay for it?

Btw., there are hardware groups where the thread appears to belong to.
 
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