X-bit labs

Started by: Air User | Date 03/11/08

Comments: 12 | Last Comment:  03/13/08

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1. I believe it's a typo in the article that says 1.5" SSD? You meant 1.8"?

Yep, looks like it.. as the actual Ad shows 1.8" and 2.5" =)

Another typo is the mis-spell word solid-state. In the article it is spelled soli-state. A simple spell check will catch that. The authors at xbitlabs needs to give their articles to a few people to make sure the words are spelled correctly and information is correct.

How about spelling the name of the article correctly "Comprtitors to Face Hard Times"

Come one editors, you need to set your goals higher if you want to succeed in life.

Editors: "We are already pretty high man"

xbitlabs.com has always been a good source of information, give the writers a break, just point out the mistakes and i guess they'll take care of them. Anandtech's articles are not mistakes free as well, tomshardware is not as reliable as it used to be, theinquirer ... let's not go there, anyway, i guess we can live if the article made a minor mistake or two till someone corrects the auther ... but i agree, proof reading and language decency should be the main auther's concern before clicking the POST button.

also, don't make a typo while being pissed of their typos "come onE editors"

also, they are doing fine i guess, at least alexa bar is telling me this, so don't give them a lecture in success unless you are the owner of facebook.com or something.

theinquirer do have its set of quirks or style of creative writing.. but usually they do have interesting stuff in there so its all worth it :)

anyone can make spelling errors.. but typing errors are even easier to make.
its the same with the local news paper.. its strange that they don't proof read atleast real paper magazsines :P

the main authEr's concern? Take your own advice and buzz off. Pwned. HAHA.

[1] well, i said we should give them a break not bash them, you are mixing my words up with aka-evil-e post. Anyway, your joke doesn't apply here, because i am the guy giving the writers a break :)

[2] english is not my first language

[3] i am not using firefox with the spell check feature, like some of you guys, firefox just ain't my thing.

[4] i am not an auth0r "happy now?!!", just a guy expressing himself, so why should i care to proof read?! if i am to write on a public website where there is lotsa traffic, i will extract each word from the dictionary before clicking the post button trying to overcome the fact that english is not my first language.

anyway, if i was able to edit i would gladly admit to my mistakes by correcting them, that's all.

2. Yes, Intel can do processors and motherboard chip sets. They can not do graphics. Yes, they have WiFi that they support in multiple OS. I doubt their SSD will shine. A SSD needs ECC for an increase reliability. Also NAND Flash memory has limited writes. SSD still is like saying putting all your eggs in one basket.

No RPM of the hard drive never relates to speed of the drive. RPM relates to the sustain rate. The accessing time and efficiency of the hard drive relates to the speed of the hard drive. People always gets this wrong. A SSD provides less than 1 millisecond of accessing time, but most of SSD do not have good efficiency to handle this low latency.

i don't get these parts, please explain more if you can:

[1] intel is already one of the largest producers of graphics chips, onboard graphics chipsets, but still counts, why did you state that they CAN NOT do graphics?!

[2] what does wifi has to do with anything?!

[3] SSD needs ECC for an increased reliability ... so?!! what is your point?! i fail to see anything in the article mention that intel's ssd will be ECC free or something like that.

[4] NAND flash memory has limiting writes .. again .. don't get it?!

[5] suddenly you are talking about hdds rpm, seriously i was totally lost there, what brought rpms to the subject?! what do you mean by most of the SSDs are not taking advantage of this low latency, ain't they already faster than the raptors with SATA-1 interface?! SATA-2 should bring more to the performance accoding to this article, so again i want to ask you, what's your point?!

Agreed: "linuxnerd" has no idea what he's talking about. Probably some 13-year-old regurgitating some article he didn't understand in the first place.
SSD are the future. The only thing that's holding them back is their current very high price. In 3-4 years time though, HDDs will have gone the way of the FDD.

"negative creep": I'm not sure about HDDs going the way of the FDD, but for your main system drive that would be a sure bet!
Couple that with a classic drive for backups of your critical data and you have a winner!
Both fast and reliable.

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