# Revisiting Solid State Hard Drives

**URL:** <https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/revisiting-solid-state-hard-drives/106>\
**Category:** blog\
**Created:** [September 15, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/revisiting-solid-state-hard-drives/106 "2010-09-15T00:00:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darrix](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@Darrix](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/Darrix)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/revisiting-solid-state-hard-drives/106/61 "2010-10-10T00:00:00Z")

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What kind of pre- and post- SSD install boot times have you achieved? VS startup time?

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**Author:** ![zmaker5](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@zmaker5](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/zmaker5)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/revisiting-solid-state-hard-drives/106/62 "2010-10-11T00:00:00Z")

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Has TRIM been fully standardized?

Also how did OtherWorldComputing achieve their performance (who wasn’t mentioned here at all) without TRIM? And they claim to not have the degradation issue.

TRIM also means you can never do data recovery, which is of course a weak argument since, especially anyone using OS X, should have a backup routine in place and thus never have to worry about recovery from the main drive itself.

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**Author:** ![3rdparty](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/3/ac91a4/32.png) [@3rdparty](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/3rdparty)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/revisiting-solid-state-hard-drives/106/63 "2010-11-17T00:00:00Z")

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So after a couple of months of use, what’s the verdict on the Momentus XT Hybrid Technology?

Interested in picking a 500gb model up to replace the 250gb OEM drive on my Unibody MacBook, otherwise I may go the route of swapping my optical drive with a true SSD drive.

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**Author:** ![Eviltobz](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eviltobz](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/Eviltobz)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/revisiting-solid-state-hard-drives/106/64 "2010-11-17T00:00:00Z")

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aye, an update on how the momentus is performing over time would be great as the reviews on newegg were all talking about big performance drops within a couple of months of use.

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**Author:** ![Frajaquico](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Frajaquico](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/Frajaquico)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/revisiting-solid-state-hard-drives/106/65 "2011-01-09T00:00:00Z")

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I’ve read a lot about this SSD and I’d really want to try one on my pc, hope this year i can save enough money to gift me one.

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**Author:** ![Aaron\_Seet](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Aaron\_Seet](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/Aaron_Seet)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/revisiting-solid-state-hard-drives/106/66 "2011-03-31T00:00:00Z")

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With the Seagate Momentus XT, what do you think is its compatibility with ReadyBoost? (on my Windows 7 laptop)

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/user_avatar/discourse.codinghorror.com/codinghorror/32/36371_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 6:39am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/revisiting-solid-state-hard-drives/106/67 "2025-01-07T06:39:42Z")

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**Author:** ![JimPas](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/user_avatar/discourse.codinghorror.com/jimpas/32/76163_2.png) [@JimPas](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/JimPas)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 7:01am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/revisiting-solid-state-hard-drives/106/68 "2026-10-09T07:01:16Z")

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