mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I don't know if I'd choose Kogan for something as important as the primary drive in my computer. There's more to reliability than just using Intel NAND chips internally. a) I'm sure Intel separate out the good, average and bad chips and then sell them at different price points (or keep the best for themselves at least). b) This will be some no-name Chinese flash manufacturer's product rebadged as Kogan, just like everything else they sell, and you know it'll be built to a price. A low price. c) No details given on what chipset it uses apart from "JMicron".. Some of those have been awful, some acceptable. And finally -- the price isn't even that good! Why pay $140 for an unproven Kogan drive, when you can get a *proven* decent drive like the Crucial MX100 256GB for $110? http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX100-adapter-Internal-CT256MX100SSD1/dp/B00KF... -Toby On 22 July 2014 14:06, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
http://www.kogan.com/au/buy/kogan-256gb-6gbs-solid-state-drive/
Kogan is selling a 256G SATA flash storage device with Intel flash (IE flash that shouldn't lose your data) for $139.
Flash storage will make your system a lot faster. Boot time will be improved a lot, particularly if you use systemd and have a multi-core CPU (in which case CPU won't be a bottleneck and most of the boot time will be disk IO). The time taken to login to a GUI environment will be a lot faster too, last time I timed it a flash device halved the time from entering a password in KDM to having KDE ready to use.
Flash storage also makes your system a lot quieter, you might not realise the noise from a constantly spinning hard drive until it goes away.
If you have $139 to spend on an upgrade to a desktop system then this is probably the best option.
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