On Jun 6, 11:39*am, Terry wrote:
On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:57:43 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"

wrote:

The prices are starting to drop:

30 GB SATA 2 SS drive: $199

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?....

4 GB 2.5" PATA/IDE SS drive: $49

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?....

What is the advantage of these drives over, say, a 32 GB jump drive at
$70 (this week at Office Depot)? *Speed? *If so, how great is that
advantage in practice?
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Best -- Terry

They are smokin' fast (though some are faster than others), They
actually can use up the bandwith in a SATAII connection, on sustained
reads & writes, which rotating devices can only do on bursts.

In practice, well that depends on what you are practicing. If you are
sending G-Codes to a machine tool. There's probably no practical speed
advantage. If you are crunching through tons of database tables,
there's a huge advantage.

As always, you pays your money and you takes your choice.