I've had experience with SS drives for over a decade at the day job, we started using them in certain applications where vibration, dust, etc. was not the best thing for the mechanical disk drives.

They are indeed FAST at everything, as you note.

BTW -- the Failure Mode is another thing that is extremely fast. We haven't experienced a lot of it, but in those instances where the SS drive fails in the field, there is no warning, no funny noises at bootup or spinup (because there isn't any spinup), the things just fail at the speed of solid state devices. Nanoseconds. Poof. All gone. This is not a fault of the drives. Everyone should make backups in digital storage, regardless of the platform technology.

It is good to see them getting into the mass-production arena now, with prices starting to come in line such that the things may get a foothold in the consumer marketplace.

Still, I intend to wait for the prices to come down a bit more before going ahead and installing on one of my personal machines. But the plans for my next DAW include an i7 processor and may just include a SS drive or two...


--Mac

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