Kingston Takes SSD Durability Testing To The Extreme

"The guys at Kingston have some fun with their Destructo series of SSD durability tests."

Published: 8th January 2010 | Source: Kingston | Author: Derrick Huey

One of the main touted selling points of SSDs is their durability. With no moving parts, SSDs have a major advantage in this department over traditional mechanical drives. But how much abuse can SSDs really take?

Enter the SSD Destructo series. A pair of guys from Kingston have taken it upon themselves to find out, though in a perhaps less traditional, more fun manner. Tests so far have consisted of hitting the drive with a baseball bat, bowling ball and golf club, with the additional test of, as the Kingston boys call it, "throwing sh*t" at it.

Want to know the results? Check out the series on Youtube here.

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30-12-2009, 11:10:44

thestepster

so ive joined the folding team and with my gaming rig being ati based it sucks at folding, so im going to build myself a dedicated folder was just wondering if anyone could give me advice as to what i should aim for spec wise i was thinkin something on the low end intel dual core celeron/pentium's with a low end asus p5kpl m/b its only got 2 sata's but this will only have 1 hard drive and a dvdrw and nowt but the folding stuff and an os

i know what graphics card ill get an 8800/9800gt then a gtx260 at later date?

so how would this spec stand up 2 folding?

30-12-2009, 11:12:36

tinytomlogan

All you need is PCIE, could be single core p4 cpu, wont matter, aslong as it can run windows xp then you have no issues. I would make it as cheap and stripped out as possible dude.

30-12-2009, 11:18:25

thestepster

yeah i was thinkin that myself, i have my mum's old pc here (sempron 3000+ 1.8ghz) but thats a no go cause thats only got agp and i have an old p4 775 m/board but that is also agp :cussing:

would rather it was dual core incase something happens with this i can resort to that for a small amount of time then my sister can inherit it when i change this rig for a new gamin set up and can put this to work on it

is windows xp better for folding than vista and 7?

30-12-2009, 11:26:29

tinytomlogan

Not really no dude, just said it cos most people have it

30-12-2009, 11:31:16

thestepster

i have windows xp home and windows 7, i have the 64 installed on this machine would it be ok if i installed the 32bit on the folding machine at the same time?

Kingston Takes SSD Durability Testing To The Extreme

"The guys at Kingston have some fun with their Destructo series of SSD durability tests."

Published: 8th January 2010 | Source: Kingston | Author: Derrick Huey

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