Windows 10: Why SSDs are obsolete

Most of you probably don't remember, but years ago on the first PC's, the ram memory was either plugged into or soldered into the motherboard. It was some time before they started putting the ram chips on little printed circuit boards that plugged into a socket on the motherboard.

On-board RAM runs much faster than the fastest hard drive, so I'm wondering if an SSD, built right onto the motherboard wouldn't be the next BIG THING. ??? It could far surpass the performance of an SSD plugged into a SATA port, even a SATA III port.

I recently bought my very first SSD, a little PNY 120 GB drive. I didn't get it because I need it, but just for experimentation purposes. Truly, it's much faster than a regular Hard Drive, in data access time, but it's hobbled by the maximum data transfer rate of my SATA II motherboard. If only I could plug it into a RAM type port, it would be blazing fast.

For years, I've tweaked the Registry, to get Windows to load its Kernel into ram on boot-up, instead of accessing it from the HD every time the Windows OS needs to access it. That one little tweak can really increase the speed and efficiency of any PC. That really makes a big difference on laptops, which have notoriously slow hard drives.

SSD? An interesting topic!

Cheers Mates!
*Cool

 

Thanks TechnoMage, that's a very useful tweak but unable to try myself as I don't have spinners anymore to boot*Wink

 

That's why faster interfaces are being introduced: SATA express: A first look at SATA Express with Asus' Hyper Express storage device - The Tech Report - Page 1
DIM (RAM slot) SSDs: http://www.sandisk.com/enterprise/ulltradimm-ssd/
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You don't really want an SSD or any drive attached to a motherboard. That may be fast but very inconvenient.

 

You can still do that with SSD but with much less dramatic result. Win8 and after, have much of it already implemented and that's one part that makes them faster than before.
"Always unload DLLs" and the like commands are not necessary any more since Vista.

 

There are SSDs that plug into the PCI-e port - so called Revo Drives. Maybe you want to try that. Example:

OCZ RevoDrive 350 Series RVD350-FHPX28-240G PCI-E 240GB PCI-Express 2.0 x8 MLC Internal Solid State Drive - Newegg.com

 

Performance is really much better than standard SSDs...





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A bit on a pricey side though.

 

I'd need to take a loan out to purchase one! *Biggrin

 

I don't think it's necessary, once you get from HDD to SSD, even slowest one seems lightning fast.

 

I agree. Performance wise, SSD's are good enough for me.

 

I decided to go for price - size instead for speed for the next SSD.

 

I remember paying $265 for my first 60GB OCZ SSD. That was in 2008. And look where prices are now. A 500GB SSD can be had for $180 and a 60GB SSD is cheaper than a decent USB3 stick.

 

According to some reports production prices should fall by approximately 50% this year.

 

And sizes should be going up soon, as well. I read recently that Intel is predicting 10TB SSDs in two years.